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: Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
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Subject: Re: Fw: Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
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> Brian Boyd's comments on Quilty are all very well, but he does not address
my
> points:
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> 1) Is Quilty a pseudonym?
> 2) If it is, is it Humbert's pseudonym or John Ray Jr. Ph.D.'s pseudonym
for
> the playwright?
> 3) If it is a pseudonym, how can Mona Dahl write "qu'il t'y"?
> 4) John Ray Jr. Ph. D. indicates that "Vivian Darkbloom" is a pseudonym.
> Therefore, presumably, "Quilty" is too. For what would be the point of
> pseudonymising the author of an unpseudonymised playwright?
>
> This is somehow stranger, or more confused/confusing than the man in the
> macintosh in "Ulysses", who Nabokov was convinced was Joyce.
>
> Anthony Stadlen
From: <STADLEN@aol.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
lines) ------------------
> Brian Boyd's comments on Quilty are all very well, but he does not address
my
> points:
>
> 1) Is Quilty a pseudonym?
> 2) If it is, is it Humbert's pseudonym or John Ray Jr. Ph.D.'s pseudonym
for
> the playwright?
> 3) If it is a pseudonym, how can Mona Dahl write "qu'il t'y"?
> 4) John Ray Jr. Ph. D. indicates that "Vivian Darkbloom" is a pseudonym.
> Therefore, presumably, "Quilty" is too. For what would be the point of
> pseudonymising the author of an unpseudonymised playwright?
>
> This is somehow stranger, or more confused/confusing than the man in the
> macintosh in "Ulysses", who Nabokov was convinced was Joyce.
>
> Anthony Stadlen