Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of my favorite books of alllllll time. Despite the controversy surrounding it (implications and direct statements of pedophiliac behaviors), it is a wonderful, creative, and uniquely written book with some of the most beautiful English language ever created.
"I had only wanted to see where she was, I could not swim with my heart in that state, but who cared---and there she was, and there was I, in my robe---and so I stopped calling; but suddenly something in the pattern of her motions, as she dashed this way and that in her Aztec red bathing briefs and bra, struck me...there was an ecstasy, a madness about her frolics that was too much of a glad thing. Even the dog seemed puzzled by the extravagance of her reactions."
Congrats on your thesis! Yay!
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