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Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
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Right--Alfred Appel, Jr., identified both of the ads mentioned
in Kinbote's note to line 91 (pp. 114-15 of the Vintage
edition), which he found in two issues of LIFE magazine (from
1937 and 1949). They are reproduced in his Nabokov's Dark Cinema
(Oxford, 1974), pp. 32-33, with discussion on 31. He also
recounts that Nabokov "unearthed in the stacks of the Cornell
library" the newspaper story headlined "Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4
on Chapman's Homer" (30; the player was Boston outfielder Ben
Chapman, 1937-38). Appel, as he mentions (308n3), was of course
able to draw on many personal conversations with Nabokov.
Mary Bellino
Mike Donohue wrote:
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> Remember, too, the magazine advertisement for a bathrobe ("The Conquering Hero Returns") alluded to in Lolita--and now immortalized in the back of the Annotated Lolita. I wouldn't be surprised if the toiletries ad turns out real.<
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in Kinbote's note to line 91 (pp. 114-15 of the Vintage
edition), which he found in two issues of LIFE magazine (from
1937 and 1949). They are reproduced in his Nabokov's Dark Cinema
(Oxford, 1974), pp. 32-33, with discussion on 31. He also
recounts that Nabokov "unearthed in the stacks of the Cornell
library" the newspaper story headlined "Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4
on Chapman's Homer" (30; the player was Boston outfielder Ben
Chapman, 1937-38). Appel, as he mentions (308n3), was of course
able to draw on many personal conversations with Nabokov.
Mary Bellino
Mike Donohue wrote:
>
> Remember, too, the magazine advertisement for a bathrobe ("The Conquering Hero Returns") alluded to in Lolita--and now immortalized in the back of the Annotated Lolita. I wouldn't be surprised if the toiletries ad turns out real.<
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