Subject: Re: Fw: CK replies to Tom Bolt re Hazel's
roommate
In a message dated
17/11/02 01:40:42 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:
Shade does not say that Hazel has a roommate. The reader is
lead to make that assumption from Shade's statement that Hazel sometimes sits
with "that nice frail roommate, now a nun."
Surely
it makes no sense to have a "dangling" roommate, without stating whose roommate
she is, in this context? Don't Shade's/Nabokov's words have the plain
meaning/implication that she is Hazel's roommate?