Permanent Sleep

If we think about permanent sleep, do we automatically have images of "Sleeping Beauty" whisk in our minds? Do we think that permanent sleep means death? Well, we shouldn't. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the figurative, metaphorical world. One can sleep without actually sleeping. I mean sleep in that you're oblivious to your surroundings, you drown in your own ignorance and unawareness and NOTHING can wake you up. So, you might as well be actually sleeping. These constant pajama wearers as I like to call it, I encounter all the time: in movies, song lyrics, books, and of course real life. Charlotte Haze is one of them. In some ways I don't blame her. How could you possibly know that your husband is secretly in love and participating in brow-frowning activities with your own daughter? Yet, how could you not know? When he glances at you at night before you go to sleep, does he glance lovingly? Does he speak genuine words of admiration to you? Or is Charlotte so caught up with her love of H.H that she wants to believe that he loves her back so badly, that she does, especially when he says it. Why question it? Why bother analyzing those little unusual clues about my husband and daughter? Well if she had, she would surely disapprove and get further furious at the thoughts and images that pass through her lover's mind. H.H. does have some ideas where he plans on giving his wife and Lolita sleeping pills to knock them out for a good, solid few hours. In that period of their sleep, he would rape Lolita (while she's sleeping) and his wife won't find out because she's sleeping too. Well, Charlotte is always sleeping, so what difference does it make?