Subject: Re: TT-6 green & death . Julia Moore + Armande = Guilia Romeo
From: John A Rea <[email-masked]>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:27:09 -0500

D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> EDNOTE. See Akiko's note at end.
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> Don,
> I just meant: In HP's nightmare, Julia Moore and Armande appear as Giulia
> Romeo, the dream name of the hooker HP met in Ch. 6. Armande, Julia and
> Giulia are mingled there for the first time, but Giulia and Armande have
> been secretly linked to each other by the color of repitle green, the color
> of ink shown through the hooker's (Giulia's) handbag and that of Armande's
> skis.
>
> Best, Akiko

With these names, we have to assemble the informationa from various
places ing the novel; and we must remember that Nabokov often made
more than one use of an item, such as a name, a word play, or even
an allusion.

The things I noticed here, are first, the fairly obvious fact that
'Julia' and 'Giulia' are simply English versus Italian forms of
the same name: scarcely different in pronunciation.  Further,
'Romeo' is simply an anagram for 'Moore' (or: 'Moore' for 'Rome').

Next the name 'Romeo' in addition to being the "male lead"in the play
by Shakespeare (and the female one 'Juliet' a diminutive of 'Julia')
but has a dictionary meaning (in Italian, and earlier in Spanish, for
example) of "pilgrim"  of course, in which meaning we can find it
peeking out here and ther in TT.

'Armande' "contains" (note my earlier reference to Nabokov's use of
this in his word play) "dream".  We might worry over 'Armand(e) Rave'
as 'a raven dream' (my extra 'e' supplied:  Nabokov's anagrams
sometimes wobble by a letter like this)

Back to Giulia Romeo (before my martini):  if my attachment comes
through it will show you the brand of car which I once owned --
actually I owned two of them at different times-- although mine was
a different model.

                John
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