SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[Wasted Words]

kute, but together we're talking about 1,400 pages in
those novels and tens of thousands of words. we're
talking about two men that play with language like
little boys play with matchbox cars. Tea? come on now,
how often do the character in Ada take tea?  the word
shows up in M&D during coffee, right? 

coffee? tea? Cigar? 

kute, but no Cuban. 


P mentions lolita in SLSL Introduction. 
i assume he read Lolita. after that? all is
speculation. and for what? what's the point? 
P doesn't write like N. If P took some of N's courses
or took in a few lectures, either he didn't listen to
N or he deliberately turned N on his head. 

now that's worth talking about! 

How is that P doesn't write like N? 

P could have been one of the students that "sat in" on
the master's show. maybe he sat in  the back with
someone with a "good ear" who translated N's
Rushglish.
he could have read the notes of friends who were
actually registered or were "sitting in." this was a
common practice where I was a student and a famous
prof put on such a show that it was standing room only
in the "threater" and it wasn't only wowed sophmores
crowding the house.  maybe P, frozen, standing on that
bridge, the one that made me dizzy everytime i crossed
it not because i was afraid of stupid bridges or high
places, can't remember what that's called but i know
it's not what Joey Lardlubber always called it,  but
because of the stories people were always telling
about how kids jumped off that bridge after they
failed exams, cold, frozen, walked down to see N and N
had the grippe or something. 


--- calbert at hslboxmaster.com wrote:
> 
> 
> In M&D Pynchon uses the term
> "superpollicate"...............ya figger 
> he is tipping his hat to his old latin teacher or
> maybe, just maybe....




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