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And I would suggest to you that we can connect this with
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Humbert's moment of wondering what happens to the little girls
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whose images he is excited by.
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This is on page 21, the beginning of chapter 6:
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"I have often wondered what became of those nymphets later
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in this wrought-iron world of criss-cross cause and effect.
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Could it be that the hidden throb I stole from them
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did not affect their future?
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I had possessed her, and she never knew it.
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All right, but would it
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not tell sometime later?
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Had I not somehow tampered with her fate by involving her