Capítulo 61: Loving a different species is not a crime. Love looks beyond the cosmetic.

Ickapoo is an alien. But it is not a crime to love a human. Love transcends species, race, age.

Readers who view Nabokov’s Lolita as mere pornography or depravity are missing the point. It is an idealization of forbidden love, and as such falls more into the category of tragedy than pornography, as Nabokov himself pointed out. Humbert meets Annabel, a beautiful young girl in his youth, and the aesthetic of youthful beauty or the idealization of woman as nymph follows from his failed romantic tryst with her. This ideal of woman as nymph is imprinted in his mind as a romantic ideal from then on, and his obsession with Dolly Haze or Lolita is a consequence from this first encounter.