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Another game that Lolita play is an actual game. Lolita has started playing tennis and is pretty good at it. Humbert is the reason she started playing this game. I think the reason for this is because it arouses him due to a quote that I have read. “No less ludicrous is his examination of Lolita's tennis and his claim that the tennis balls represent testicles (those of a giant albino, no doubt). Mr. Rowe finds "sexual analogies" in such phrases as "mating devices." I can agree with this quote because Humbert has a weird way of looking at things. I feel this way because of another source that I came across that stated “Her game seems perfect –her serve has ‘beauty, directness, youth, a classical purity of trajectory.” Humbert probably knew
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