Finally!

After a day of doing nothing with my time but have Nabokov on my mind, i think i have finally found a couple small little discoveries. They arent big but just interesting enough to have kept my interest long enough while looking for them.

The last name of Lolita has always slightly confused me. I couldnt figure out why, Nabokov would spell Haze the way he did as a last name. I have known people with that last name and never had seen it spelt that way. So I spelt it Hayes. Just out of curiosity I looked up Howard Hayes. Since Lolitas fathers name was Howard i though i could possibly find a little something with that name. Turns out that there was a Howard Hayes Scullard. He was a british historian and was one who edited the Oxford Classical Dictionary. that i thought was pretty interesting, Nabokov being a writer and he taking a name of a person who loved words was kinda cool. But then as i looked a little more i found that Howards fathers name was Herbert Hayes Scullard. That little name looked and sounded familiar. not only is it similar to Humbert but it also is mentioned in Lolita when they are checking into the Enchanted Hunters hotel.

the second discovery i found was pretty neat too, i had thought that parkington was an interesting town name and googled that. when i did i found that there was a man named Gersham Parkington who had a very unusual clock and watch collection. could be a coincidence of course but i thought it was pretty cool . Not only that but Gersham means, little surprise.