the sexiest book ever

一日中ナボコフの授業準備をしてました。

ロリータは、Jと出会ってすぐPhDの口答試験のために一番はじめに手に取った本でした。

UVAのアルダーマン（図書館）から、スターバックスに行こうと思うと

ロタンダのジェファーソンの像を横目になんとなく歩きにくい道を数分かけて歩くのですが、

Oh awesome, dude, that's the sexiest book ever. When Humbert Humbert licks Lolita's eyeballs?  Man.

とJは言った。

誰かが熱っぽく語る何かにまだ到達できてないことが悔しかったのだと思ってたけれど

いつでも自分の一歩先を歩いている誰かだから、追いかけたかったのだとも思う。

I came across her in her mother's bedroom. Prying her left eye open to get rid of a speck of something. Checked frock. [...] For a moment, we were both in the same warm green bath of the mirror that reflected the top of a poplar with us in the sky. Held her roughly by the shoulders, then tenderly by the temples, and turned her about "It's right there," she said, "I can feel it." "Swiss peasant would use the tip of her tongue." "Lick it out?" "Yeth. Shly try?" "Sure," she said. Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. "goody-goody," she said nictating. "It is gone" "Now the other?" "You dope," she began, "there is noth--" but here she noticed the pucker of my approaching lips. "Okay," she said co-operatively, and bending toward her warm upturned russet face somber Humbert pressed his mouth to her fluttering eyelid. She laughed, and brushed past me out of the room. My heart seemed everywhere at once. Never in my life-- not even when fondling my child-love in France-- never--

(43-44, Lolita)

ロリータのこの箇所に来ると、10年前にJが突き刺した旗が見える。