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but it traps her there in immortality with him.
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He is then as immortal as she is in the pages of this screed.
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And so--like the chainlet-- it takes that stone
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-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone,
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turning life to the representation by your tormentor.
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It turns into something durable that will outlast them.
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So, the problem with art is in a sense that it is immortal.
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That's the problem.
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If life is threatened over and over again in this novel by mortality--
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dead children, Lolita growing up inevitably,
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painfully,putting her at risk.
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Her body grows; she can't do anything about it--