SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

> 
> << 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.

Coincidence:

In Love and Death, Woody Allen's dance through 19th cent russian 
lit, Dianne Keaton acccuses him of being jejune, and he replies:

"You accuse me of jejuenosity?"

love,
cfa