Subject: Re: Fw: : Quilty's name: The Poetry of Being
Quilty
In a message dated
16/12/02 04:28:17 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:
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
Dear Professor
Boyd,
Why, then, is "Vivian Darkbloom", who, according to John Ray Jr.,
PhD, has written Quilty's biography, a pseudonym, as also indicated by John Ray
Jr., PhD? How could disguising the name of the author of a biography of a
correctly named playwright save anyone's anonymity? Come to that, if, as
Dr Ray tells us, we can look these events up in the newspaper, we would surely
learn the true name of HH. He dies before facing trial, but his arrest
would have been reported.
Incidentally, do YOU have any idea why the
hotel in Kubrick's film is "The Hunted Enchanters"? That would be
Nabokov's doing, if anyone's, wouldn't it? Nobody responded when I asked
this a few months ago.