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Richard Rorty explains it in his lecture " The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty ( Bennington Chapbooks in Literature, 1988)
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In a message dated 31/05/2004 01:23:28 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:

no Kasbeam barber


Talking of which, can anyone explain the importance of this barber, and why he should have cost VN a month of work, as he claimed in 'On a Book Entitled "Lolita"'? There's an easel on the barber's desk with a picture of his dead son, just as there was one on the dentist Quilty's desk with a picture of his then live nephew the playwright. But ... ?

Anthony Stadlen