| Quote #1 was my excessive desire for that child only the first evidence of an inherent singularity? (1.4.1) |
Humbert never stops trying to puzzle out the source of his perverse desires. These efforts are interesting in light of his deep dislike of psychoanalysis.
| Quote #2 Her legs, her lovely live legs, were not too close together, and when my hand located what it sought, a dreamy and eerie expression, half-pleasure and half-pain, came over those childish features. (1.4.3) |
Humbert details his first sexual experience. Of course there has to be some pain involved.
| Quote #3 While a college student, in London and Paris, paid ladies sufficed me. (1.5.1) |
If he can't have nymphets, Humbert will take prostitutes. Most of his sexual experiences involve some sort of vice.