Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009487, Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:21:42 -0800

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Fw: Fw: doubles in Lolita/Harold D. Doublename
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> I understand that sentence to be VN playing on the fact that he
> himself/humbert continiously uses fake double names and that instead of
> trying to hide it with cleverness he simply came up with the obvious.
> Dane
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> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: doubles in Lolita/Harold D. Doublename
> >Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:22:42 -0800
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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
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.windriverpress.com/titles/studyofsleep.html
> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
> > > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > >
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> > > unladen european swallow
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