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Re: The "56 days" conundrum in "Lolita"
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Appel's note 253/1 (pages 429-30 in The Annotated) seems relevant here. He writes, "Nabokov immediately mocks such doggedly persistent literalism by having H.H. hire Bill Brown, an imbecilic private detective...a gesture that can only be for the benefit of the literal-minded reader." Unless I'm missing something, Bill Brown is not the name of the private detective, but rather the name of the person that the detective tracks down: "he turned up one day with the triumphant information that an eighty-year-old Indian by the name of Bill Brown lived near Dolores, Colo." (253) Even so, I wholeheartedly share Appel's conclusion that "Nabokov ... mocks such doggedly persistent literalism": "The 'information' provides a non-solution that parodies the reader's need for a solution and our belief that either literature or life will ever reveal one." I also appreciate the mention of the corrected hyphen. Bruce
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:52:05 -0400
From: STADLEN@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] The "56 days" conundrum in "Lolita"
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In a message dated 13/03/2012 01:07:32 GMT Standard Time,
bstone41@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
If you
include both the start and end dates of this interval, you should get 56
days: 9/22 - 9/30 (9 days), 10/1 - 10/31 (31 days), 11/1 - 11/16 (16
days).
But that is not the normal meaning of "56 days ago", surely? And why does
VN so emphasize 52 (in Appel's notes)?
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