RSGwynn:
It should be obvious that Shade was here
predicting the soon-to-be existence of that other Nabokov creation, "Alfred
Appel." ...[ not ]... a fictional character invented by VN to
"explain" Lolita. Apparently the son had to produce his birth
certificate as evidence that A. A. was, in fact, a real person with a genuine
gene-pool! VN cast very long shadows, as it were.
J. Mello: For the sake of
registering coincidental shades of words besides the "long drawn shadows"
of past and future: When a List-participant signed his
comments on Lolita's red honeyed apple as J. Mella, I thought someone was
playing a joke ( then I remembered John Mella). In Portuguese the word for honey
is "mel" and apple, in Italian, is "mela".
C. Kunin: (a) likelihood is that most beds, even literary
ones, are tumbled at least once in a 24 hour day. (b) I tried googling
"tumbled bed" and amongst the first ten of 850,000 (an even number, my goodness!
that must be a first!!) "hits" I found these interesting tidbits - - gems
one and all. It seems you can even buy a pre-tumbled bed!!! Those of
perverse bent will rejoice to see that there are some rather dark
images...
J.Mello: Tumbled
hair, tumbled beds tumble about and many
examples do not confirm the "sexual" meaning pointed out by M. Roth. And
yet, I still think his research is worth pursuing.
Van's "Mascodagama"
act, if I'm not mistaken, takes place together with exercising "
oriental tumblers" in ADA ( or do they appear at the begining, during
Marina's acting and Demon's seduction scene?)