This is interesting! But
don't you think the 'childish and cruel' wordplay is really part of
HH's character, part of his contempt for the Haze character? His own
name is a self-constructed pseudonym, isn't it, despite the fact that
he puts it into "real" dialogue....? I'm going to look up Lewis Carroll
in Numberland, being a big fan of popular mathematics in my journalist
role. -- Tim Henderson
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:28 AM, jansymello <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
SKB: Look for LEWIS CARROLL IN NUMBERLAND, Robin Wilson,
W W Norton, 2008. Enough wordplay, perhaps, for non-mathematicians
[...}VN was teasing when he said Carroll was an H-H prototype. Carroll
certainly loved photographing naked nymphets but NO HANKY-PANKY.
This reminds me -- does
anyone remember a Nabokov parody called "Three Meetings" by Eli
Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I recall is his discovery
of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants, bucking....choppy flags
of the forest". This book I think was named for much funnier parody
(wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The Cocktail Party" called
Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience kneeling and singing
Adeste, Fideles.
--Tim Henderson
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru> wrote:
Dear all,
Nobody seems to have noticed that Siri
Bendtsen, the name of the girl who asked the List about the reason of
VN's dislike of Dostoevsky, is a Nabokovian anagram. I wouldn't
have noticed it myself, if the inventor of this quite plausible
Scandinavian name (to whom I had written by chance) didn't invite me to
look closer at Siri. The anagram's solving was then the matter of a
second.