Humbert, Lolita, Chrissie, Bianca?

[Jules Siegel]

jm wrote:
> 
> Someone wrote:
> 
> >Was this interview supposed to be about Pynchon or Jules Siegel? I got the
> >impression that it was about the latter.
> 
> Aw come on!  Jules really has put up with a lot from us.  For one thing I
> particularly liked his very sensible observations on depth of detail (real
> or only apparent) in TRP's fiction, and the vanity (quite possibly) of
> pursuing these often rather accidental writerly tropes and meanderings down
> to their most basic roots.  What's the motivation for doing so (I ask), and
> at what point of excess does it become simply a geek's game without any
> further literary or aesthetic relevance?  I also enjoyed his survey of forms
> of the "white goddess." And as for Chrissy winning the dance contest in
> Manhattan Beach, a "White Goddess in hot flesh and teenage underwear," I
> only wish that I had been there. How about the statement that "Bianca,
> obviously, is based on Chrissie?"  There was speculation on this list during
> the last year or so about Bianca's age.  Some p-listers even made her out to
> be sixteen or so.  Because of this, and also because I never knew Chrissie,
> I'd like to hear more from Jules about why the identification of Bianca with
> Chrissie is (to him) so obvious.         -jm

Later, jm. Real busy here. You will win the Nobel Prize for Common Sense
some day, though.
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