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Notes on TT-7, names and halls (fwd)
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Date: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:08 PM -0700
From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Notes on TT-7, names and halls
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John Rea and Akiko wrote:
> ... almost any university building, (say dormitory or
> classroom building) is named a "hall" in America. Think of, say,
> Wordsmith Hall, etc.
> Sorry for my awkward explanation. I also thought Snyder Hall was the name
> of a building, probably the dormitory. I meant that Snyder Hall sounded
> as if it were someone's name when we remembered Harold Hall in the
> previous chapter, as if they were brothers or relatives, Snyder was an
> impossible first name though. Is there anything that could connect the
> names Harold, Snyder and/or Hall?
Snyder sounds unlike a first name, but so do many other first names. There
is Radclyffe Hall, which sounds like a university building - anywhere but
at Radcliffe U or Harvard U - but is a name or, rather, a pen name.
Mary Krimmel
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:08 PM -0700
From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Notes on TT-7, names and halls
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John Rea and Akiko wrote:
> ... almost any university building, (say dormitory or
> classroom building) is named a "hall" in America. Think of, say,
> Wordsmith Hall, etc.
> Sorry for my awkward explanation. I also thought Snyder Hall was the name
> of a building, probably the dormitory. I meant that Snyder Hall sounded
> as if it were someone's name when we remembered Harold Hall in the
> previous chapter, as if they were brothers or relatives, Snyder was an
> impossible first name though. Is there anything that could connect the
> names Harold, Snyder and/or Hall?
Snyder sounds unlike a first name, but so do many other first names. There
is Radclyffe Hall, which sounds like a university building - anywhere but
at Radcliffe U or Harvard U - but is a name or, rather, a pen name.
Mary Krimmel
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D. Barton Johnson
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