These Things Do Not Make Sense

Let’s leave aside the fact that Woody Allen is accused (whether justly or unjustly) of sexually assaulting a child in real life whereas Humbert Humbert is a character in a novel. Apparently there’s a prominent novelist who thinks that if you admire Lolita it must be because…you consider Humbert Humbert a moral exemplar? What the hell?

LGM has received an advance copy of Carol Oates’s next fascinating moral puzzle. “Though Whitey Bulger has been much denounced, very likely many of his denouncers greatly admire Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II. No contradiction?”