Okay.  I give up.  It was a flighty idea based on incomplete information.   Jansy, I meant "good guys" to include "good gals".  Anyway, if we stick with the theory, then Gradus is not a bad guy which leads to some interesting conjectures, but I've overdone the conjecture bit.  I enjoyed the VN Birthday celebration.  Do we have to wait a whole year to do it again?
 
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:04:45 -0400
From: nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Birthday Wish
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

We also know Gradus's (a Bad Guy) and Dolly's  (a Good Girl).  I suspect Quilty's, and  Pnin's V.V. are 4/23 or a variation of it.



On 4/24/2013 7:51 AM, Jansy wrote:
Trying to understand your idea: John Shade, Kinbote and Gradus, Sebastian, Pnin, Fyodor ( and perhaps Van Veen) ...are they the "good guys"?   What do you mean by "good" ( and "bad")? 
Did you simply mean "the guys" and not the gals? 
 
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Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Birthday Wish

A noble goal to compile such a list.
It did seem to me with respect to your query "I have been wondering...why we do not know Humbert's birthday (in contrast to Fyodor G-Ch's, his father's, Sebastian Knight's, Pnin's, and John Shade & co's)  that the list of characters for whom we know birthdays is a list of good guys, exclusively.

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