Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein’s crimes.

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    What does the foot say?

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    The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body.

    Great.

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      Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book…:

      She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.

      Which in the book continues with…;

      She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

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        That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don’t feel dirty while reading it.

        English wasn’t even Nabokov’s first language! That’s insane!

        The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:

        Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

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        Lolita is an (in)famous novel about a man’s obsessive sexual attraction to a prepubescent girl. It’s supposedly well written, but the content is abhorrent.