JM: HH is also
warning the reader about his use of similar tactics in his
confessions, by hiding them in anagrams, puns and allusions ( just like this one
he made to Joyce's "Angels and Devils"), to engage us in a paper-chase,
like his own after Quilty and Lo...
Scott
Houldin: Perhaps the apparent 'sloppiness' is merely
evidence that a proper gloss of the reference has not yet been achieved. I
think the key to this phrase lies in what has been omitted. crucially, the
subject of the biography has not been revealed. we are asssuming that
Quilty's is the life in question...
A. Stadlen:...what sort of
"confidentiality" is Ray honouring here? Anyone could work out who Darkbloom and
Quilty were -- if they existed -- from what Ray writes...
Jerry Friedman: Quilty's real name
might begin with Q would make his identity and Vivian Darkbloom's easy for a
reader to find from the title /My Cue/. This may not be a flaw; it may be
as comic as Kinbote's giving away names that Shade had
disguised.
JM: Cue means
a hint, a clue, or a Q. Nevertheless for theatrical perfomances
it simply refers to the moment a character steps in, after a set of
specified words. Vivian Darkbloom's cue may signal the disguised author's,
albeit a fictional Nabokov, entrance in scene - perhaps both as his anagrammatic
Vivian but also as Quilty, who gives space for a real poet amid the
other characters in The Enchanted Hunters. Probably the poet doesn't have to
hunt or chase the wind. It is only necessary that he is
there.