EDNote: Isn't there an HE/EH inversion later in the novel, concerning Quilty's play? My memory is hazy (!) at best on this point.

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Re: [NABOKV-L] Broken Flowers
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Date:
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:47:27 EST
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In a message dated 22/03/2006 14:16:41 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:

First: the name-switching reminds one of the Humbert/Humberg/Homberg mutations that take place at the Enchanted Hunters.


Every so often I raise the question of why the hotel in Kubrick's film (though not in VN's screenplay) was The Hunted Enchanters (visibly so), but no-one else seems to have noticed, let alone provided an explanation.

Anthony Stadlen






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