Lolita

Humbert’s plan for Lolita is simple. Hoping that Lolita has not yet heard of Charlotte’s death, he calls Camp Q to say that Lolita’s mother is ill and he will be picking up Lolita. He plans on giving Lolita vague updates on her health as they travel until finally he will announce that Charlotte has died. Lolita is on a hiking trip when he calls the camp (mirroring the lie he had told the Farlows, which Humbert thinks might be a result of fate’s intervention). Humbert goes to Parkington, where the camp is located, and purchases presents for Lolita based on the measurements he memorized from examining her belongings. He wires the Enchanted Hunters hotel to book a room for him with two twin beds. 

Humbert breaks from the narrative to complain about prison. He has written a hundred pages and is unsure if he can go on. Humbert places the date of the point in the narrative at roughly August 15, 1947 and then writes “Lolita” over and over again, asking whoever publishes the text to fill an entire page with her name (which the publisher does not do).