JM:First of all a correction for
"wizard" and "folkloric" ( in a past message about Jerry Friedman's
curious discovery related to "Pale Fire" and "The Cream of
Jest".)
"Panic at the London Evening
Standard yesterday where the theatre critic Henry Hitchings filed his review of Lolita at the
National Theatre, only to learn that no one at HQ could locate his copy. The
panic starts early there – 5am – with production staff looking at the clock and
imploring him to file again. Why couldn't he communicate with them. No one could
understand it. Enter a hero computer boffin. The firewall, he explained, was
rejecting the word Lolita. So Hitchings had to re-file substituting Lolita
throughout with the less troublesome "Fishfingers". Relieved production staff
re-inserted all the Lolitas at the other end."