@JoyceCarolOates John Milton: "Hmm, how can I appeal to contemporary readers? Not my contemporary readers, but the contemporary readers of 2025, a time with technology unimaginable to me?"
@JoyceCarolOates The devious logic of Lolita is incredible. It begins with Humbert telling readers that murderers have a fancy prose style, then seducing more naive readers with his fancy prose style. It's a novel, at least in part, about how monsters like Humbert delude themselves and others.