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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:10:26 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: Lolita Riddle
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Secondly re comments made by Jansy - can I just say that Nabokov did quite
> explicitly say that he had put a riddle in Lolita. (I am not making this
> up.)
Dear Jo Morgan,
It would be hard to find anything by Nabokov that does not contain a riddle,
usually a multiple of them. An essay, "Who's Who in the Sublimelight" in
the most recent Nabokov Studies (vol. 8, 2004) suggests that one rather
important riddle might be "why does the name of John Ray's cousin and
Humbert's lawyer, Clare[nce Choate Clark, Es]q." contain the name of Clare
Q.?"
George Ferger, whose name suggests nothing to me, comes to some fascinating
and intriguing, and possibly correct conclusions.
Carolyn
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