ANAGRAMS!! + NABOKOV!! = AA! + BANG! + NO MARKS! + VO!
AA: (American) Automobile Association; guide used by VN in tracking HH/Lol’s itineraries & motels. Also a cry of astonishment.
BANG: sound of HH’s gun killing Quilty. Also idiom = drop dead!
NO MARKS: low score for irrelevant anagrams! Also phonetic ref. to VN’s aversion to Karl Marx, a famous co-founder of Communism.
VO: abb. Voice Over = cinematic device used in Kubrick’s Lolita, providing HH’s inner thoughts.
Stan Kelly-Bootle, DHFS (Dead-Horse Floggers’ Society).
MAA. AMS, ASCAP, AAAS.
On 23/03/2010 10:45, "Alexey Sklyarenko" <skylark05@MAIL.RU> wrote:
QUELQUES FLEURS + CHOSE + DUMAS + BELLE = QUELQUE CHOSE + LES FLEURS DU MAL + BES
Quelques Fleurs - in Ada, commercial name of Aqua's and Marina's talc powder (1.3)
Chose - Chose University, Van's alma mater (1.30)
Dumas - A. Dumas pere (1802-70) and A. Dumas fils (1824-95), French dramatists and novelists; cf. "AAA explained... to a Negro lad... that Pushkin and Dumas had African blood" (1.24)
Belle - Fr., "beautiful"; Lucette's name of her governess (1.14)
quelque chose - Fr., something
Les fleurs du mal - The Flowers of Evil, a book by Baudelaire
bes - Russ., demon; cf. Bellabestia ("Bess"), old Dan's nurse (2.10), and Russian saying sedina v borodu, bes v rebro ("one's beard is turning grey, a demon settles in one's rib")
Alexey Sklyarenko