Left, the only actually published cover that (to my knowledge) features any version of Humbert SOLO (there are two that were part of a design contest but not actually published). It really does give the whole thing a different vibe and reads MUCH more "prison memoir" (as it should).
Right, while it does have a girls body parts (audience booing) she at least looks like an actual child and not massively sexualized. I also love that this picks up on Nabokov's anecdote from the Afterword:
"The first little throb of Lolita went through me late in 1939 or early in 1940, in Paris, at a time when I was laid up with a severe attack of intercostal neuralgia. As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage."
History: Dolly Dagger is bound to a Napoleonic-era dagger. It reflects the user's self-destructive and violent nature but also his desire for innocence and to shift the blame to others. Vittorio is often shown using Dolly Dagger to engage in self-harm. Dolly Dagger first appears in Chapter 1: Vitti 'na Crozza.
Ability: Dolly Dagger reflects seventy per cent of the damage done to Vittorio to whoever or whatever is reflected in the Stands blade.
Trivia: Vittorio's last name comes from the Italian singer Marianna Cataldi.
"The pain makes everything feel real. Calls forth the life within me! Without that, I'll go extinct." Vittorio Cataldi.