Oops. Sorry, everybody, for this confusion, scratch Jens Boot.
By the way, Captain Nemo was played by James Mason in 1954, six years before his Humbert, and before PF.
Victor Fet.
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"Doctor Kinbot?" he asked, uncertain. I smiled. "Kinbote," good sir, the o is long, like das Boot in German..."
Alas, this is not from Pale Fire, but from Charles Kinbote's (Jeff Edmunds') novel (available in Zembla) Silvery Light: Vladimir Nabokov's Original Life.
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