Nabokov's Lolita really shouldn't be pigeonholed as merely that, but I guess the movies are another story.
Dolores in Lolita was like twelve though, at least in the book.
edit: also I don't think Yud recommending The Softcore Adventures Of A Six-year-old In A Thirteen-year-old's Body as a Very Normal Book to his considerable audience fits this particular discourse.
He wasn't usually. Another difference with siskind was that with TLP you mostly knew where you stood, or at least I don't remember any near-end-of-text jumpscares where it's revealed the whole thing was meant as really convoluted IQ apologetics, or some naive reframing of the latest EA embarrassment.
He seems very aware of how writing works at least, and unlike EY some of his fiction is serviceable.
That's the trouble with talking about thoroughly disingenuous people, you get bogged down with defining if they meant to mean what they wrote. It's all optics.
Something like a weekly general topic thread would work great for this I think.
If books could kill is so much fun.
edit: accidentally removed the quote i was commenting on when editing in Stross' comment, here it is again:
a belief in psi powers implicitly supports an ideology of racial supremacy, and indeed, that's about the only explanation I can see for Campbell's publication of the weirder stories of A. E. Van Vogt.
Maybe it's me but I don't think that is so self evident a claim to be posited without further explanation.
Best I can come up is he means the necessary implication of having superabled people in a fictional setting is that you have a de facto racial elite, even if the concept rarely breaches the surface of the text, like in the unfortunate sequel to the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.
Edit: he addresses it in the comments (can't find a way to direct link from phone, its comment #14) I wasn't far off:
If you're a glutton for punishment, (re-)read Slan by A. E. Van Vogt.
Secret superrace with super-mind powers! It's totally a meme in vintage SF (goes back at least as far as Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race in the 19th century) and you rapidly end up with eugenics and breeding for desired traits (eg. psi powers).
It's supposed to be from the book the moneyball guy wrote about him that was recently released, according to several seconds of googling 'SBF on Shakespear'.
If they open their APIs so I can coordinate different brands without downloading a bazillion different apps and as long as I can do it without my data leaving the house, I'll think about it.