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  • The two closest glimpses Humbert gives us of his own self-hatred are not without their death wish — made explicit in the closing paragraphs — and their excremental aspects: "I am lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows and a queer accent, and a cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile."

    Hurricane Lolita 2005

  • The two closest glimpses Humbert gives us of his own self-hatred are not without their death wish — made explicit in the closing paragraphs — and their excremental aspects: "I am lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows and a queer accent, and a cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile."

    Hurricane Lolita 2005

  • And this was my case… But instead I am lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows… A cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile… aging ape eyes… Humbert's face might twitch with neuralgia.

    Gizmodo Mario Aguilar 2012

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