Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006023, Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:47:29 -0700

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Fw: Juanita Dark?
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> > From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
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> > Dear Juan,
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> > Juanita Dark was the first name of Lolita Haze according to Dmitri
> > Nabokov in "On a book entitled The Enchanter"
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> > Now a question of my own: Is Lambert Lambert of the penultimate page
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> > to suggest Lambert Strether, or is it a common name?
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> > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> > > Juan Martinez < jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu> inquires:
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> > > Does the name Juanita Dark have anything to do w/
> > > _Lolita_, by any chance? I seemed to think that it
> > > did, but now I can't remember why. How about "Judy
> > > Dark"? Or "Cimmeria"?
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> > > Any help would be much appreciated.
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> > Cheers!
> > yours
> > Kiran
> >
> > "It is impossible, by the way, by picking up one of anything to pick
one
> > that is not atypical in some sense."
> > - R.P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
> >
> > http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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> > http://www.physics.usyd.edu/hienergy
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