MYOPIC

Adjective

1. Ophthalmology. pertaining to or having myopia; nearsighted.
2. unable or unwilling to act prudently; shortsighted.
3. lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.

Nabokov uses this word a couple of times at least. Example: "I had seen that kind of thing in children before but, by God, this was a special child, myopically beaming at the already remote stage where i glimpsed somthing of the joint authors..." (221)

"No matter, even if those eyees of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples swell and crack, and her lovely young velvety delicate delta be tainted and torn..." (278)

This wor appears on a page that mentioned Clare Quilty. I think it is interesting that Humbert Humbert is frequently showing Lolita's myopic vision. It is his myopic vision that readers should be concerned with considering he is the nearsighted one, especially when it comes to figuring out the clues left for him by Quilty. I think that by always point out Lolita's myopic tendencies Nabokov is secretly wanting readers to notice Humbert's myopic tendencies instead. Just a theory.

Note: It seems as though this word is used more than twice in this novel but I am having a hard time locating instances. If anyone knows of other page numbers please let me know. Thanks!