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I believe Humbert exists as a name in English, although not perhaps a particularly common one.
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Wasn't Humbert Humbert the guy with the hots for Lolita?
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So I believe (not that I've read it). Any idea where Nabokov got the name?
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In an interview in 1973, Nabokov said that he selected the name Humbert because it sounded villainous (c.f the Italian "umbra" for shadow), because it sounded like a prince (and he needed that for some of the allusions in the novel) and because its diminuitive ("Hum") was a good match to Lolita's mother's pet name for her ("Low).
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One look says it is a rare surname.
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Please, can anyone explain to me the use of solipsist here? Humbert makes her his solipsist ideal web page
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Solipsism being the notion that reality is nothing more than a product of one's own imagination, I should think that Humbert sees Lolita as the ideal woman he has created entirely on his own.
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Aw crumb...I'm no further ahead in trying to guess the real definition.
O.k., I pick P, just because it has nothing to do with quickness.
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Thanks, Faldage. I was having trouble with it, based on this definition: : a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing M-W
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it is with little haste and much hesitude that I hash out a vote for h.
aside to the hogmaster: good luck handling these responses.
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