LA WEEKLY
The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jon
What we talk about when we talk about rape
By Steven Mikulan
published: October
09, 2008
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The linked story begins with a (not entirely appropriate) quote from Lolita, but the reference farther along is of more interest:
"In his opening remarks, Levine, an avuncular man
given to unpredictable facial
grimaces, cast the women as ambitious Lolitas who, frustrated by stalled careers, 'jumped on the bandwagon' to 'tear down a celebrity.'"
Yet another example of the cultural corruption so well described by Ellen Pifer in the Lolita chapter of Demon or Doll and, in richly entertaining detail, by Graham Vickers in Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again.
For those who might be
interested, an update on the trial can be found here:
Jim Twiggs