Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001058, Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:35:57 -0800

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Queries: LO's "Rita" & ADA's "amerlocks" (fwd)
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1) Marianne Cotugno <mxc52@psu.edu> would like to know if anything has
been written on Humbert Humbert's "other women," most specifically "Rita."

2) Sergei Ilyin <isb@glas.apc.org> has a query re ADA, Part I, chptr 38.
Demon is visiting Ardis Hall when Bouteillan, the butler, comes in. Demon
says: "Bonsoir, Bouteillan. You look as ruddy as your native vine--but we
are not getting any younger, as the amerlocks say, and that pretty
messenger of minbe must have been waylaid by some younger and more
fortunate suitor." AMERLOCKS????