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CK replies to Tom Bolt re Hazel's roommate
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From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: CK replies to Tom Bolt re Hazel's roommate
Dear Tom Bolt,
1) Shade says Hazel had a roommate, and he should know.
Shade does not say that Hazel has a roommate. The reader is lead to make that assumption from Shade's statement that Hazel sometimes sits with "that nice frail roommate, now a nun."
Whereas Jennifer suggests that perhaps a roommate isn't a roommate, you and Jerry Friedman suggest that what Shade (and presumably Nabokov) meant to say was that Hazel sits "with her nice frail roommate, now a nun."
So why didn't he? Why doesn't Nabokov allow Shade to say what you say he meant to say?
Is this very small error Nabokov's?
Carolyn
--- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: CK replies to Tom Bolt re Hazel's roommate
Dear Tom Bolt,
1) Shade says Hazel had a roommate, and he should know.
Shade does not say that Hazel has a roommate. The reader is lead to make that assumption from Shade's statement that Hazel sometimes sits with "that nice frail roommate, now a nun."
Whereas Jennifer suggests that perhaps a roommate isn't a roommate, you and Jerry Friedman suggest that what Shade (and presumably Nabokov) meant to say was that Hazel sits "with her nice frail roommate, now a nun."
So why didn't he? Why doesn't Nabokov allow Shade to say what you say he meant to say?
Is this very small error Nabokov's?
Carolyn