Images, undated and uncaptioned, include Vladimir Nabokov lines written on women and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos from the estate of convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, as the deadline for the justice department to release its files related to Epstein looms.

The images, released on Thursday, are undated and lack captions or context. Among them are photographs of what appear to be lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita written on different parts of a woman’s body.

In a statement after the release Robert Garcia, a US representative and ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, said that “oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein estate to provide transparency for the American people.”

“As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession,” he said.

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    Media illiteracy is so low in the elites.

    Lolita book was about a man who deludes himself.

    It’s 1st person. Humboldt tells us how lolita loves being with him yet he reports her behaviors which contradict many of the things he says.

    Ultimately my interpretation of the book was a story about a person who is incapable of genuine self reflection and lives in a constructed reality that is far from truth.

    A constructed reality that allows him to not feel bad about the bad person he is nor the harm he inflects.

    This would not be a book to quote during sexual conquests of girls.

    It’s a book about a sad pathetic person.

    It’s like when incels try to align themselves with America psycho Bateman.

    Dude the book is about being a product of manipulation.

    Not being a real person. But an empty machine.

    Why align yourself with that. Wtf?

    Media literally. Seriously.

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      Not just the elites, saw an article earlier this year that claimed 40% of Americans are functionally illiterate, and they want to keep us that way. As my world history teacher in high school loved to reiterate: “kings and dictators act to control people, and if you keep people people dumb, fed, and happy, you can control them.” I carry that skepticism everywhere now.