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Dahlia Rideout
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The Lolita motif is common in Pynchon's works. Other Lolitas include Bianca in [Gravity's Rainbow.
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Dahlia is four or five years old! She is not a Lolita motif here. Lolita was twelve and Humbert was sick.
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Too early in the novel to jump into such conclusions.
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p. 51

I think that deadfalls

in:

"in the deadfalls where the desperate malcontents convened"

may be:

rough saloon (Jonathon Green, Cassells's Slang Dictionary)

JerryS 10:42, 22 May 2008 (PDT)

P28 Dahlia Rideout The Lolita motif is common in Pynchon's works. Other Lolitas include Bianca in [Gravity's Rainbow. Dahlia is four or five years old! She is not a Lolita motif here. Lolita was twelve and Humbert was sick. Too early in the novel to jump into such conclusions.

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