Nabokov and Pynchon

[Otto]

Now I know where Pynchon got the name "Waxwing" from:

Waxwing, Blodgett
246; specialist in phonying documents; his calling card has a cheSS knight
and his address is on the Rue RoSSini in Zürich; escapee from the stockade
Caserne Martier in Paris; meets Slothrop at Raoul's party, wearing a zoot
suit; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; provides Slothrop the identity "Ian Scuffling,
English War Correspondent" when he goes to Zürich, 256; 620
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/w.html

It's from the first line of Canto I of  "Pale Fire".

And all those chess-references in "GR".

Otto