Gavriel Shapiro's 1996 article on the class list in Lolita mentions this in the section on "Smith, Hazel." Shapiro writes "Hazel > Haze, L.- cf. Humbert's abbreviation of her name as L. in his diary" (330) Shapiro's article appeared in Cahiers du Monde russe, 37.3, July-Sept. 1996.
In a forthcoming article, I talk about the Hazel-Haze, L. coincidence, but I was unable to track down who first wrote about it. Does anyone have an earlier reference than the Rosenbaum article?
Matt Roth
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To avoid posting two messages, I added here an old review by Ron Rosenbaum in which he not only argues about Brian Boyd’s theory of writerly “ghosts” in PF (recently mentioned in a posting related to “consciousness after death”), or his retraction concerning the debates about the “Shadean theory”, but he also brings up a find (Hazel and L.Haze) that I’ve encountered (or noticed) yesterday for the first time (this is why I decided to share it with newcomers to the VN-L)
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