1. Minded by corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence they guard their deeply embedded doubts.

2. No longer did I desire conventions of little nymphets, each one wearing playboy's plastic name badge.

3. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child.

4. So let her remain, sleek, slender Monique, as she was for a minute or two: a delinquent nymphet shining through the matter-of-fact young whore.

5. Reader must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness.

6. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet.

7. It happened for instance that from my balcony I would notice a lighted window across the street and what looked like a nymphet in the act of undressing before a co-operative mirror.

8. So, the object of this wonderful aesthetic reverie, the nymphet, turns out to be an adult male. And I just want you to ask yourself why that could be.