Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011142, Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:45:35 -0800

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Fwd: Re: Two notes on ADA (pet)
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:23:50 EST
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In a message dated 02/03/2005 01:14:35 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:

> wee winds go free at table, circa 1882

I expect it has already been pointed out that this is an allusion to
"l'oeuvre ormonde du sublime dublinois" (as Humbert puts it in "Lolita"), the
Ormond
Hotel chapter in "Ulysses" by Joyce (b. 1882).

Anthony Stadlen

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