Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a new batch of 68 photos obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. Follow live updates here.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.

The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.

The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein’s crimes.

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    59·
    2 days ago

    What does the foot say?

    Edit:

    The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body.

    Great.

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      34·
      2 days ago

      Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book…:

      She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.

      Which in the book continues with…;

      She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        141·
        2 days ago

        That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don’t feel dirty while reading it.

        English wasn’t even Nabokov’s first language! That’s insane!

        The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:

        Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

        • Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 day ago

          Apparently the POS even had an annotated version and still didn’t understand the book!

          Edit: The annotated version, the one that he had, is very informative.

          • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 hours ago

            I’ve read the novel. Humbert is a pathetic old man who destroys Lolita’s life for a fling on the road. The girl goes from a charmed upper middle class life before the family meets Humbert to the death of her mother, debasement and abuse at the hands of Humbert, and finally poverty, poor education, and bearing children out of wedlock. Lolita’s life is ruined in the aftermath, much like Epstein’s real victims. Nabokov did not write a sympathetic treatment of child abuse in Lolita, nor is Humbert a hero in the story.

      • kopasu22@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 day ago

        Lolita is an (in)famous novel about a man’s obsessive sexual attraction to a prepubescent girl. It’s supposedly well written, but the content is abhorrent.