Subject: CK replies to Tom Bolt re Hazel's roommate
Dear Tom Bolt,
1) Shade says Hazel had a roommate, and
he should know.
Shade does not say that Hazel has a roommate.
The reader is lead to make that assumption from Shade's statement that Hazel
sometimes sits with "that nice frail roommate, now a nun."
Whereas
Jennifer suggests that perhaps a roommate isn't a roommate, you and Jerry
Friedman suggest that what Shade (and presumably Nabokov) meant to say
was that Hazel sits "with her nice frail roommate, now a nun."
So
why didn't he? Why doesn't Nabokov allow Shade to say what you say he
meant to say?