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This is not the craftedness of modernism.
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This is papier-mache, a fairly crude folk art.
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Anyone can do it.
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Get your strips of newspaper and paste them up.
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So, it has a quality that is different from Humbert's elaborate
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world view through which we see or don't see Lolita.
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It's a very different kind of crafting, but yet it does replace
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reality in a similar way, or it makes demands on reality that
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push the real back.
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And so, even though they can never get to the bottom of their souls--
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they can never get, as Sal says, that last thing,
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that's what you can never have-- even though that's true,