“Kumfy Kabins”- “Nabokov loves to have fun with phonetics and double consonants throughout the novel. Humbert Humbert is just one in a long succession, including Gaston Godin, Mesmer Mesmer and Harold D. Doublename. This word play applies to the names of the places and towns Lolita and H.H. visit along the road, too. Places like Hazy Hills, Kumfy Kabins, Hobby House, Raspberry Room, Pierre Point, and many more.” (Amy Cartwright http://amycblogpage.blogspot.com/2008/11/kumfy-kabins-lolita.html)
"The Enchanted Hunters"- Is a play that Lolita participates in during school which is written by her idol Claire Quilty. It is also the Hotel in Briceland where Humbert and Lolita stay after he picks her up from camp. There is a religious convention at the hotel which forces H.H. to get a room with a single bed. It is the site where Humbert and Lolita first have sexual intercourse.
“A formidable convertible”- This convertible is driven by Claire Quilty. Humbert Humbert takes the parking spot that car pulls out from, noticing that the car pulls into another spot that Humbert found to be more appealing. He doesn’t realize that this car has been following him, waiting for a chance to take his coveted nymphet .
“Black eared cocker spaniel”- Lolita is fascinated by this dog, which Quilty much have picked up on due to the fact that she recieves a cocker spaniel puppy.
After finishing my annotations of the page, and noticing where the numbers had been placed Mr. Appel, I turned to his annotations to see what I had missed. I saw the second annotation placed next to the reference of Robert Browning , but I was trying to google “peach-cleft” instead of “frock-fold,” which was really frustrating. Googling the latter word only takes you to references of Nabokov, which I neglected to look into, becuause it wouldn’t have been any different than looking at the books annotations. I was happy to see that I had picked up on the cocker spaniel puppy, remembering it from discussions in class and was very close to the annotation of the book. The first words that struck me on the page were “Kumfy Kabins,” knowing that Nabokov liked to playing with words, I knew I would find something relevant to the story or maybe some kind of historical context to the words. Unfortenatly, I didn’t couldn’t find the existence of any Kumfy Kabins, but I did find a blog that was posted last year by a student that I took verbatim. I thought about trying to rearange the work to make it my own, but I would never have been able to pick out that many examples and felt the credit was deserving to her. The picture is also done by Amy Cartwright. I thought it was really interesting that she put the numbers 342 on the fence!
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