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EDNOTE: NABOKV-L thanks our old friend Corinne for this tidbit. One wonders
how many of the dozen-odd addresses are for real.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinne Scheiner" <cscheiner@ColoradoCollege.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (84
lines) ------------------
> Dear Don,
>
> As a fifth-generation Arizonan who grew up in Phoenix, I have to let you
> know that there is no corner of Seventh Street and Central Avenue. The
> two streets run parallel to one another.
>
> Yours,
> Corinne
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Corinne Scheiner
> Maytag Assistant Professor
> Comparative Literature
> The Colorado College
> 14 East Cache La Poudre Street
> Colorado Springs, CO 80903
> 719/389-6238 tel
> 719/389-6179 fax
> cscheiner@coloradocollege.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU]On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 5:08 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Lolita - Humbert row scenes query
>
>
> EDRESPONSE: In LOLITA, Part II, chapter 2 HH lists the places where he
> and
> Lo had rows. The one asked about below is "at the corner of Seventh Street
> and Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona." I have not checked but assume
> that
> that address and the others are real.
> For example, another corner where HH & LO quarrel is McEwen and Wheaton
> Avenue in Clare, Michigan. THere is an article about this last in Volume I
> (1994), pp. 1-7 of NABOKOV STUDIES with a photograph of the funeral home
> on
> the site.
> There a dozen or more such "quarrel locations" listed by HH. If
> subscribers who live these spots would care to send in photographs it
> would
> make the charming little project for display here or on ZEMBLA.
> -----------------------------
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juan Martinez" <jmmartin@mail.ucf.edu>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (30
> lines) ------------------
> > A friend forwarded to the following query. I am doing the same:
> >
> > hello, mister juan
> >
> > hope all's well in floridialand. i have a nabokov inquiry for you. a
> > recent
> > reader email included the following:
> >
> > >Speaking of cross streets, in _Lolita_ Humbert mentions having a fight
> > or
> > >argument
> > >with Lolita at the corner of, I believe, 7th St. (or maybe 7th Ave.)
> > and
> > >something in
> > >Phoenix. I don't have my copy handy to check the reference. Best
> > regards
> > >to you
> > >and Wagner.
> >
> > do you know the intersection?
> >
> > hochste lust!
> > g
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - - http://www.fulmerford.com
> >
> >
how many of the dozen-odd addresses are for real.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinne Scheiner" <cscheiner@ColoradoCollege.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (84
lines) ------------------
> Dear Don,
>
> As a fifth-generation Arizonan who grew up in Phoenix, I have to let you
> know that there is no corner of Seventh Street and Central Avenue. The
> two streets run parallel to one another.
>
> Yours,
> Corinne
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Corinne Scheiner
> Maytag Assistant Professor
> Comparative Literature
> The Colorado College
> 14 East Cache La Poudre Street
> Colorado Springs, CO 80903
> 719/389-6238 tel
> 719/389-6179 fax
> cscheiner@coloradocollege.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU]On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 5:08 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Lolita - Humbert row scenes query
>
>
> EDRESPONSE: In LOLITA, Part II, chapter 2 HH lists the places where he
> and
> Lo had rows. The one asked about below is "at the corner of Seventh Street
> and Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona." I have not checked but assume
> that
> that address and the others are real.
> For example, another corner where HH & LO quarrel is McEwen and Wheaton
> Avenue in Clare, Michigan. THere is an article about this last in Volume I
> (1994), pp. 1-7 of NABOKOV STUDIES with a photograph of the funeral home
> on
> the site.
> There a dozen or more such "quarrel locations" listed by HH. If
> subscribers who live these spots would care to send in photographs it
> would
> make the charming little project for display here or on ZEMBLA.
> -----------------------------
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juan Martinez" <jmmartin@mail.ucf.edu>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (30
> lines) ------------------
> > A friend forwarded to the following query. I am doing the same:
> >
> > hello, mister juan
> >
> > hope all's well in floridialand. i have a nabokov inquiry for you. a
> > recent
> > reader email included the following:
> >
> > >Speaking of cross streets, in _Lolita_ Humbert mentions having a fight
> > or
> > >argument
> > >with Lolita at the corner of, I believe, 7th St. (or maybe 7th Ave.)
> > and
> > >something in
> > >Phoenix. I don't have my copy handy to check the reference. Best
> > regards
> > >to you
> > >and Wagner.
> >
> > do you know the intersection?
> >
> > hochste lust!
> > g
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - - http://www.fulmerford.com
> >
> >