SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
"Kinch, the jejune jesuit" sez stately plump Buck Mulligan...
What does Stephen's nickname "Kinch" mean? Anybody know?
Mark

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/19/02 9:16:32 PM, MalignD at aol.com writes:
> 
> << VN:  The literary parodies in the Maternal Hospital chapter are on
> the 
> whole 
> jejunish.   >>
> 
> Interesting term "jejune- ish." Joyce uses the word *jejune*
> himself in the course of the novel. I forget exactly where,
> but remember being struck by it, and its multiple possibilities
> (contexts?), e.g., *je* as in "je ne sais quoi" and june, as in
> the month of the day of Bloom, and JeJune, as in J.J. himself,
> and, including, but not limited to, Juno, and the original latin
> "dryness" or "meager." I think it was used in relation to Stephen,
> somehow.
> 
> repectfully


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