hello (fwd)

[Peter Trachtenberg]

As long as we're on the topic of Mondaugen, isn't his name a pun? Either 
bi-lingual (Mond=world (Fr.)+Augen=eye (Ger.) or perhaps from a 
corruption of Mundt=Mouth.

On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Linda H. Segrest wrote:

> 
> I'm cooking up a theory of who Mondaugen is, and I don't know if this 
> has been talked about hitherto, so I'll just throw this out as a teaser, 
> a proto-string starter: who is Kurt Mondaugen? What is his 'position' in 
> V.? 
> 	
> 	Mondaugen is the uncorrupted Nordic, the (impartial?) witness to
> all the bad-German-romantic decadence at Foppl's, but most importantly
> another male affected powerfully by V.
> 	Actually he's none of this and more, just an "impersonation" of
> Herbert Stencil, the high priest/prophet in the wilderness of cabalistic
> gnosticism.
> 	What else could he be???
> 	
> 	BTW, on the Nabokov thread, anybody read _Invitation to a
> Beheading_?  It's one of my favorites...
> 	
> 	
> 							-T.J.
> 
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