Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002405, Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:03:57 -0700

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Re: Chestnut Lodge (fwd)
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To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: Chestnut Lodge


One anagram in *Lolita* is crude in both senses of the word. There
is a complaint at school about Lolita deliberately mixing up the
beginning letters of the names of two of her teachers, Miss Horn and
Miss Cole. That's really obscure schoolyard slang for an emigre.

From: Charles Nicol <EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu>