Unspeakability
John Lanchester, 6 October 1994
“... Nabokov the writer, and then reading the books with a thrilling combination of close attention and broad reference. Here, for instance, is Wood on the moment near the end of Lolita when the now-older Lolita is begged to come away by a desperate Humbert, and she says: ‘No, honey, no.’ Humbert reflects: ‘She had never called me honey before.’ She ... ”