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Re: Thinking of LOLITA in Ashland, Ore (fwd)
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From: L.M. Delage-Toriel <lmd24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
"Losing my time" is a perfect gallicism ("perdre mon temps"), but what
about "on second thoughts"? Isn't that proper English? Or is my English as
faulty as HH's?
Lara Delage-Toriel
(Cambridge University)
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Galya Diment wrote:
> From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
>
> >1. In his febrile final pursuit of Lo and then Quilty, HH seems to be
> losing >his English (as well as his mind). NB "Feeling I was losing my
> time...." & "On second thoughts..." Comments?
>
> OK, HH seems to be losing his English and his grip. But I recall finding
> two or three other instances earlier in the novel in which I could swear
> the non-nativeness of the Author's language became momentarily apparent.
> My imagination?
>
"Losing my time" is a perfect gallicism ("perdre mon temps"), but what
about "on second thoughts"? Isn't that proper English? Or is my English as
faulty as HH's?
Lara Delage-Toriel
(Cambridge University)
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Galya Diment wrote:
> From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
>
> >1. In his febrile final pursuit of Lo and then Quilty, HH seems to be
> losing >his English (as well as his mind). NB "Feeling I was losing my
> time...." & "On second thoughts..." Comments?
>
> OK, HH seems to be losing his English and his grip. But I recall finding
> two or three other instances earlier in the novel in which I could swear
> the non-nativeness of the Author's language became momentarily apparent.
> My imagination?
>