"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue thier practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them." (87-88)
This passage reveals the purpose of the novel, an attempt to prove that what he does is not wrong. He tries to say that the relations do not need to be sexual or "coital," which we know is a lie since he's already masterbated to Lolita's clothing. He tries to say how he is harmless or the acts are yet before he evaluated whether he ruined some girls with his thoughts because he wanted some effect on them. His entire plea that he sets up is ruined by the thoughts and actions he's published previously in the novel. But to me the kicker is the "colloquial" manner in which he describes the actions of sex offenders. It's as if he believes everyone else thinks in that rustic, more than likely Southern dialact, usually associated with hicks or uneducated individuals. In otherwords he sees himself as a poet, as he claims a bit later, and everyone else as inferior to him. This speal reveals him for what he is, an ego-manical, manipulative pervert.
Does he honestly believe his words will fool anyone?
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