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the panting maniac.
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These are not only vivid characters in a unique story.
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They warn us of dangerous trends.
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They point out potent evils. should make all of us--
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parents, social workers, educators--apply ourselves with
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still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better
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generation in a safer world."
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Well, aren't those ringing words from John Ray?
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Nabokov ensures that
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the very idea of taking a moral lesson from this novel is unavailable to us
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because it's already been ridiculed.
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He not only makes us see the psychiatric evasion of morality