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We are at the end of the book. Celeste got into some trouble, but she got away with probation, the terms of which have not prevented her from pursuing her sexual mania for junior-high boys. In this passage, she reflects somberly on what the future holds for her.
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For now, my youth and looks make this easy. I try not to think about the cold years ahead, when time will slowly poach my youth and my body will begin its untoward changes. I’ll have to pare down to certain types: the motherless boys, or those so sexually ravenous they don’t mind my used condition. Eventually I’ll have to find a better-paying job in an urban area with runaways hungry for cash whom I can buy for an evening. But that won’t be for many more years; there’s lots of fun to be had between then and now.
-- “Tampa” by Alissa Nutting
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In contrast to the almost ridiculously romantic nature of Humbert Humbert’s love for Lolita, in Celeste we do not see any redeeming features. She is throughout single-minded and utterly remorseless in slaking her deviant passions. Ms. Nutting presumably cannot hope to outshine Nabokov’s literary star, but this book is a keeper and deserves to stay in print.
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For now, my youth and looks make this easy. I try not to think about the cold years ahead, when time will slowly poach my youth and my body will begin its untoward changes. I’ll have to pare down to certain types: the motherless boys, or those so sexually ravenous they don’t mind my used condition. Eventually I’ll have to find a better-paying job in an urban area with runaways hungry for cash whom I can buy for an evening. But that won’t be for many more years; there’s lots of fun to be had between then and now.
-- “Tampa” by Alissa Nutting
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In contrast to the almost ridiculously romantic nature of Humbert Humbert’s love for Lolita, in Celeste we do not see any redeeming features. She is throughout single-minded and utterly remorseless in slaking her deviant passions. Ms. Nutting presumably cannot hope to outshine Nabokov’s literary star, but this book is a keeper and deserves to stay in print.
