What is interesting to note is that Humbert claims to be a murderer. Why admit it, especially when most of the novel is Humbert telling people about his relationship with a young girl? Perhaps he feels he must admit the truth right away and will use his prose to explain and distract the reader from the real atrocity. People often start by telling others something that is inherently ugly, then go on to explain so that it doesn't seem so bad; Humbert could do the same thing here. By telling us that he is a murderer and describing the history of his relationship with Dolores as something that is not bad, he could also be trying to explain the murder as something that resembles his relationship with Dolores: simultaneously telling readers the truth of his actions and tricking them into believing it is not malicious. Nonetheless, his fanciful prose frames his rhetoric. He uses a lot of detail to distract readers from the actions he is committing. “I felt as if I had shed my clothes and put on pajamas with the kind of fantastic instantaneousness that is implied when, in a cinematic scene, the process of change is interrupted” (128). Here he describes himself undressing as he prepares to caress Lolita, but he uses the art of cinema to describe this in a roundabout way. It uses stunning images that are supposed to