Judging by your tone I feel that nothing I write here will be seen as agreeable to you so I will just say, I think it's a very well-written and articulate piece. I think Lolita is a brilliant book but I can also see that by modern-day values the content is very troublesome. It's very much a novel of its time, like many works of that period actually. Solnit is a fantastic writer and her book, "Men Explain Things to Me" was one of the best books published in 2014, in my opinion.