Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0012723, Sat, 13 May 2006 19:08:30 -0400

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Re: New Yorker Opal parody: "Wilma, light of his life"
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> are from the ending of Flannery O'Connor's great short story
> "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
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> Mary Bellino

Martha in KQK might have sung along with Mae West (et al): "A Hard Man
Nowadays is Good to Find?"

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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Yes, I missed a lot of those. However, the parodist didn't
have much choice about "Willllll-maaaa!" That's how the
song ends. Maybe it was the show's parody of /Streetcar
Named Desire/.

Jerry Friedman

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