No exciting find for the general public, only
for me. Alfred Appel mentions it,
albeit rather succintly whereas this malicious condensation of links
struck me as an absolute source of wonder...
The Annotated Lolita, on page 406 (Penguin)
Appel notes:
207/2 Pim...Pippa: an allusion to the
play Mr. Pim Passes By (1919), by A.A.Milne ( 1882-1956), and to
Browning's Pippa Passes. See also Keys, p.20. See 117/2 for
another reference to Pippa Passes, and Pale Fire,
p.246.
And yet, in his next note on the "Dublinois"
theme, Appel develops the "Ormonde" ( hotel Ormond and Ulysses and James
Joyce's "hors [de ce] monde".
He doesn't inform that both Browning and
Milne were also "Dubliners".
Another correction: In
A.Christie's "A Murder is Announced" the equivocal character is not called
Pippa, but Pip ( short for Philippa).
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(maybe)
VN's direct mention to Pippa: "
She watched the listless pale
fountain girl put in the ice, pour in the coke, add the cherry syrup — and my
heart was bursting with love-ache. That childish wrist. My lovely child. You
have a lovely child, Mr. Humbert. We always admire her as she passes by. Mr.
Pim watched Pippa suck in the concoction:"J'ai toujours admiré l'œuvre du sublime
Dublinois."[...]