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to think about the word "queer," the treatment of Gaston Godin,
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that funny French character in Beardsley,
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to think about Humbert's constant protestations that he's attractive to all women,
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about his supposed virility.
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And it should just make you wonder whether pedophilia is
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in itself a kind of knight's move from homosexuality.
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In other words, is there another form of perverted desire
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hiding behind the one that's in front of us?
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Just a suggestion.Look on page 20,
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still in Humbert's early life,
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near the bottom: It happened for instance that
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from my balcony I would notice a lighted window across the street and