Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005829, Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:43:50 -0800

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From: Nicholas Laughlin <nicholas@lonsaatch.com>

An illustration of Nabokov's pervasive influence, even in obscure
corners
of the world: Earlier today, wandering idly through the studio of the
advertising
agency at which I work, I picked up a copy dated 2000 of Caribbean Way,
"The
Inflight Magazine of Air Caribbean" (a small Trinidadian airline which
went
bankrupt some months ago). Glancing at the masthead, I noticed a few
odd names in
the list of editorial contributors: Dolores Haze, Charles Kinbote, John
Humbert-Shade.

I could not actually find any articles ascribed to these persons.
I suspect a bored freelance writer.


Nicholas Laughlin,
Port of Spain, Trinidad

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EDITOR's COMMENT. A true gem. Is it merely by chance that all of the
editorial contributors are dead?