Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from stan.lsit.ucsb.edu ([128.111.222.4]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.01 201-253-122-122-101-20011014) with ESMTP id <20011127151710.VAEE3822.out010.verizon.net@stan.lsit.ucsb.edu> for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:17:10 -0600 Received: from ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu [128.111.125.82]) by stan.lsit.ucsb.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fARFIVB09224 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:18:31 -0800 Received: from ucsbuxa (listserv.ucsb.edu [128.111.125.159]) by ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02990 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:18:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02986 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:18:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [130.68.60.179] (helo=mail.montclair.edu) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 168k0D-0006LY-00 for NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:18:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3C03AE9C.EC9A86D5@mail.montclair.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:17:48 -0500 From: Jay Livingston X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum Subject: Re: Nabokov on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 I rarely watch the show now, but some time ago, one of the questions asked what Lolita's real name was. I do not remember the choices, except that Dolores was one of them, but they were all plausible (this was a fairly high denomination question, as I recall). I don't remember whether the contestant guessed right, guessed wrong, or walked. But all the while I was imagining myself in the "hot seat" appearing to give the question much thought and finally saying, "Well, Regis, these names all sound possible, but I think that on the dotted line . . . ." And that's my final answer. Jay Livingston