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Re: Frederick Raphael's ``Lo and Behold-``-Annotations? (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. In re Jay Livingstons's queries: Oleg Sherva and Irving
Flashman are from Humbert's list of Lolita's classmates. Any help on the
others?
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From: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
Although I got the allusions, the whole
thing seemed rather lifeless to me. It was intended, I assume, as as a
parody of or tribute to Pia Pera's LO'S DIARY, which I liked even less.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
ssweeney@holycross.edu
FROM: Jay Livingston:
I read Frederic Raphael's "Lo and Behold" after it was linked here (6
Feb). (I still remember and admire "Darling" and some of his TV scripts--"The
Glittering Prizes" and "Oxford Blues.") "L&B" was an enjoyable
pastiche, but I'm afraid I got only a small number of the
allusions--Girodias, Mary Quant, Warren Beatty, Lina Wertmuller (I
think), and of course Brian Boyd. Most of the others, including (and
I'm probably revealing too much ignorance or memory failure here) the
multiple references to Red Rock, went by me. Gwen Fairplay, Margarite
Byron, Ribillo, Irving Flashman, Nubar Boom Boom Gemujian, Floyd Austin,
Oleg Sherva, et. al. Are any of these worth knowing?
Jay Livingston
Flashman are from Humbert's list of Lolita's classmates. Any help on the
others?
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From: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
Although I got the allusions, the whole
thing seemed rather lifeless to me. It was intended, I assume, as as a
parody of or tribute to Pia Pera's LO'S DIARY, which I liked even less.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
ssweeney@holycross.edu
FROM: Jay Livingston:
I read Frederic Raphael's "Lo and Behold" after it was linked here (6
Feb). (I still remember and admire "Darling" and some of his TV scripts--"The
Glittering Prizes" and "Oxford Blues.") "L&B" was an enjoyable
pastiche, but I'm afraid I got only a small number of the
allusions--Girodias, Mary Quant, Warren Beatty, Lina Wertmuller (I
think), and of course Brian Boyd. Most of the others, including (and
I'm probably revealing too much ignorance or memory failure here) the
multiple references to Red Rock, went by me. Gwen Fairplay, Margarite
Byron, Ribillo, Irving Flashman, Nubar Boom Boom Gemujian, Floyd Austin,
Oleg Sherva, et. al. Are any of these worth knowing?
Jay Livingston