I was mistaken.

It happens sometimes, the rare occurrence of me making a mistake. And I was deadly wrong. About Humbert's Lolita, that is. Extremely wrong, as it turns out, because little Delores is SO TOTALLY NOT A VIRGIN. And she's only twelve! Way to start ahead of the game. She's like I was at age 5-- reading chapter books when all the other little ones were stuck on Junie B. Jones. Completely applicable comparison.

So, Hummy manages to get Lolita to take a minor sleeping pill (by faking taking it himself, then getting Delores all jealous of his big purple "energy" pills, then offering one to her). Only problem is, when he sneaks back into their room, expecting to find her completely comatose, she keeps waking up at the slightest movements Humbert makes. Oh noes, big ol' Hummy can't take advantage of the little girl if she's half-awake!

Actually, the next day, her and Humbert get into a discussion of Humberts sex life, and he reveals that he's never done it before (as a child at least), which surprises her. In fact, it surprises her so much, that she immediately engages in carnal act itself with Humbert right then and there.

This is the weird part: I feel like Hummy was leading up to this point in all the other chapters before, and throughout his whole life. I mean, this is what he has been dreaming of since, like, forever. He's been surrounded by beautiful innocent nymphets his entire life, and he hasn't ever been able to touch a single one of them until now, and it is SO. UNDERSTATED. when it happens. I had to actually flip back through the pages, and check to make sure that they actually did it, because he never even says it out right. In the most un-straightforward way possible, Humbert describes it as if Lolita doesn't exactly know what she's doing, but that she's eager to please him. Basically, yeah.

^^^^ My little Lolita update for today.