Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009483, Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:22:42 -0800

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Fw: doubles in Lolita/Harold D. Doublename
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From: "Brian Howell" <fanshaw@123mail.org>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Maybe this is a minor thing, but speaking of doubles, I thought it was
> funny that Appel doesn't refer, in his notes to the Annotated Lolita -
> maybe because it's so obvious? - to 'Harold D. Doublename' ('a misty-eyed
> left-wing professor at a Midwestern university') [Part II, Chapter 6,
> halfway in or p. 182 of the 1991 paperback edition]. This is when Appel
> comes to HH's cheeky list of names in the gallery of photographs of
> (homosexual) artists on the wall of Gaston Godin's studio. Obviously,
> Doublename recalls HH or even GG of Gaston Godin. But whom specifically?
>
> Brian Howell
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