SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

> 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? 


Ah, the skeptic.........

and you have found this particular latinate play, employed in such a 
context, a well worn technique, have you?

your reading list is far longer than mine, clearly..........could you 
lead us to other such examples?

love,
cfa 
> 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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