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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
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> There is no reason to suppose Quilty's name a pseudonym, and since HH
wants
> to indict him as the villain of the piece, every reason to assume that he
> would have chosen not to spare his name.
>
> BB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, 16 December 2002 1:56 p.m.
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> Subject: : Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
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> From: <STADLEN@aol.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
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> > Brian Boyd's comments on Quilty are all very well, but he does not
address
> my
> > points:
> >
> > 1) Is Quilty a pseudonym?
> > 2) If it is, is it Humbert's pseudonym or John Ray Jr. Ph.D.'s
pseudonym
> for
> > the playwright?
> > 3) If it is a pseudonym, how can Mona Dahl write "qu'il t'y"?
> > 4) John Ray Jr. Ph. D. indicates that "Vivian Darkbloom" is a
pseudonym.
> > Therefore, presumably, "Quilty" is too. For what would be the point of
> > pseudonymising the author of an unpseudonymised playwright?
> >
> > This is somehow stranger, or more confused/confusing than the man in the
> > macintosh in "Ulysses", who Nabokov was convinced was Joyce.
> >
> > Anthony Stadlen
>
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (40
lines) ------------------
> There is no reason to suppose Quilty's name a pseudonym, and since HH
wants
> to indict him as the villain of the piece, every reason to assume that he
> would have chosen not to spare his name.
>
> BB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, 16 December 2002 1:56 p.m.
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: : Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <STADLEN@aol.com>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being Quilty
>
>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
> lines) ------------------
> > Brian Boyd's comments on Quilty are all very well, but he does not
address
> my
> > points:
> >
> > 1) Is Quilty a pseudonym?
> > 2) If it is, is it Humbert's pseudonym or John Ray Jr. Ph.D.'s
pseudonym
> for
> > the playwright?
> > 3) If it is a pseudonym, how can Mona Dahl write "qu'il t'y"?
> > 4) John Ray Jr. Ph. D. indicates that "Vivian Darkbloom" is a
pseudonym.
> > Therefore, presumably, "Quilty" is too. For what would be the point of
> > pseudonymising the author of an unpseudonymised playwright?
> >
> > This is somehow stranger, or more confused/confusing than the man in the
> > macintosh in "Ulysses", who Nabokov was convinced was Joyce.
> >
> > Anthony Stadlen
>