S.Klein: on http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/doc-datamancers.html
"...show-off allusions to the works of Vladimir
Nabokov[...]Instead, Mr. Brownlee gives us a revealing insight into his writing
process...[W]riting is not about randomly shaking up a tray of letters in one's
head and plucking words from the alphabetical mnemonic slurry...
"
JM: Who is Humbert
Humbird?
A.Stadlen [ about: on France 2 TV
Bernard-Henri Lévy said that Nabokov always said that one can judge a man by the
way he speaks] "Nabokov ALWAYS said this? How would one reconcile this
with Nabokov's written assertion:'I think like a genius, I write like a
distinguished author, and I speak like a child'?"
S.
Soloviev: In France BHL (Bernard-Henri
Lévy ) is a rather notorious personage. Probably he sees himself as a great
philosopher[...]he is eager to mix up with every theme "a la mode"[...]but as
far as I know more serious people do not consider his declarations as fiable,
everything he says has to be checked at least twice - if it is of any relevance
at all.
JM: A great point, AS! In the
context, it's also quite funny - just as SS's "philosopher a la mode"
description.