Lolita

"Here are two of King Akhnaten’s and Queen Nefertiti’s pre-nubile Nile daughters (that royal couple had a litter of six), wearing nothing but many necklaces of bright beads, relaxed on cushions, intact after three thousand years, with their soft brown puppybodies, cropped hair and long ebony eyes."

words I learned from Lolita 11 pages in:

ribald: referring to sex in a rude way

ardent: passionate

sibilant: hissing sound

aridity: bitter, pungent

impunity: immunity from injustice

fey: mystery, otherworldliness

poignant: keen sadness, regret

chameleonic: fickle, changeable