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in particular, keeps skipping over forms of violence.
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There is that mother's death at the beginning.
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There is another moment in which Humbert is tracing his hand along lolita's leg
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and he discovers a bruise there that he'd given her accidentally.
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That's early on in the book.
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In other words, this surprise is a violent surprise.
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You can even look at the mention of a knight's move in this book.
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That's page 192:
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One of the latticed squares in a small cobwebby casement window
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at the turn of the staircase was glazed with ruby,
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and that raw wound among the unstained rectangles and its asymmetrical position-
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a knight's move from the top--