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From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Nabokov" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.edu>
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> The weather this evening in the increasingly closer North Atlantic leads
me
> to this speculation.
>
> Consider the following lines from __Pale Fire__:
>
> It was a year of Tempests: Hurricane
> Lolita swept from Florida to Maine [ Canto Three, 679, 80]
>
> Now, the mid-to-late 'fifties were times when hurricane threats to the
> northeastern United States seemed to be as regular an occurrence of early
to
> mid-fall as the damn Yankees winning the American League pennant and then
> the World Series In fact,. John Shade per VN may very well have been
> thinking specifically of Hurricane Hazel in October of 1954, a Tempest
that
> did indeed sweep 'from Florida to Maine.' Hurricane Hazel maintained a
> tree-downing gusto up past Lake Cayuga, and set the wind record for New
York
> City at 115 mph, which stands to this day.
>
> Hazel...hmmm, where do I know that name from? Of course Hazel Shade is
> already onomastically cross-referenced to Lolita Haze, one of many
> cross-references in __Pale Fire__, I would suspect, to __ Lolita__ .
>
> So Hurricane Lolita meets Hurricane Hazel.?
>
From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Nabokov" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.edu>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (23
lines) ------------------
> The weather this evening in the increasingly closer North Atlantic leads
me
> to this speculation.
>
> Consider the following lines from __Pale Fire__:
>
> It was a year of Tempests: Hurricane
> Lolita swept from Florida to Maine [ Canto Three, 679, 80]
>
> Now, the mid-to-late 'fifties were times when hurricane threats to the
> northeastern United States seemed to be as regular an occurrence of early
to
> mid-fall as the damn Yankees winning the American League pennant and then
> the World Series In fact,. John Shade per VN may very well have been
> thinking specifically of Hurricane Hazel in October of 1954, a Tempest
that
> did indeed sweep 'from Florida to Maine.' Hurricane Hazel maintained a
> tree-downing gusto up past Lake Cayuga, and set the wind record for New
York
> City at 115 mph, which stands to this day.
>
> Hazel...hmmm, where do I know that name from? Of course Hazel Shade is
> already onomastically cross-referenced to Lolita Haze, one of many
> cross-references in __Pale Fire__, I would suspect, to __ Lolita__ .
>
> So Hurricane Lolita meets Hurricane Hazel.?
>