A.Stadlen
[If the
lines on "to borrow and to borrow" do come from "Lolita"] They certainly do. It is Quilty talking to Humbert during their final
confrontation.
JM: Thanks for the
clarification... Indeed...Clare Quilty! A name as
ambiguous as Vivian Darkbloom.
And didn't Lolita know that! ( as in: "Sometimes," said Lo, "you are quite revoltingly dumb. First, Vivian is
the male author, the gal author is Clare; and second, she is forty, married and
has Negro blood.")
Vivian Darkbloom is female only in
"Lolita", I think.
Now my present puzzle is Sybil
Shade's reversions from English into French or, outside the
novel, from French into English.