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and the other more or less canceled child."
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So, here are at least three examples of canceled children,
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and you can use that phrase, I think, to characterize Lolita.
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She is a canceled child.
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Her childhood is stolen from her by Humbert.
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In this scene, it is the mother's imaginative preoccupation, in a sense,
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that cancels her children,
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and you can ask whether she is preoccupied with the idea of the new child within her.
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You get that sense of pregnancy being an inner meaning or
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an inner significance, and perhaps it's a figure for what preoccupies her,
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for the world of imagination and possibility.
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But she has that kind of distant internal smile.