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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Explain this sentence to me please

I could do nothing with the anguish of knowing Lolita to be so tantalizingly, so miserably unattainable and beloved on the very eve of a new era, when my alembics told me she should stop being a nymphet, stop torturing me.

What does "stop torturing" mean ?
  

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stop causing me to feel the extreme pain of great sexual desire,

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  • stop causing me to feel the extreme pain of great sexual desire,
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stop causing me to feel the extreme pain of great sexual desire,
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Also

"[her] to be so tantalizingly..."

Can you explain the use of "to be so" here? I have never seen it used like that before.
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That is not a collocation. The two collocations are:

[know/consider/think/etc (someone) to be] [so tantalizingly unattainable / so happy / so busy / etc]

Here are some other examples:

I consider him to be very important.
She supposes us to be working now.
Absinthe is thought to be unattainable.
etc.
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Thank you.

One more question

What is the object(I don't know If I'm using this word correctly) of "stop torturing me"?
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AnonymousWhat is the object(I don't know If I'm using this word correctly) of "stop torturing me"?
I think you mean the subject:

my alembics told me she should stop being a nymphet, [she should] stop torturing me.
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