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For the big picnic on Ada’s twelfth birthday and Ida’s forty-second jour de fête, the child was permitted to wear her lolita (thus dubbed after the little Andalusian gipsy of that name in Osberg’s novel and pronounced, incidentally, with a Spanish “t,” not a thick English one), a rather long, but very airy and ample, black skirt, with red poppies or peonies, “deficient in botanical reality,” as she grandly expressed it, not yet knowing that reality and natural science are synonymous in the terms of this, and only this, dream.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
Farther away, it was considered to be quite beyond the pale, if it existed at all, and persons of repute did not mention it.
Sabriel
Garth Nix and Leo And Diane Dillon
The terrible, undeniable truth is that the world is full of plain white vans.
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