Cues and Lolita?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote: Glad to see some activity on the urth list. In the interest of possibly stirring up a little more: I Lolita for the first time a few months ago -- Amazing!!!? (But difficult; I recommend an annotated copy or an accompanying class notes booklet.) There's lots of wordplay throughout, and one that I seem to remember reccurring frequently is play with "Q" (as in "Quilty"), "cue," and maybe "clue."? Has anyone made any connection between Lolita and Wolfe's short "Cues" from TIoDDaOSaOS? I haven't even reread "Cues" in a year or so, but I thought I'd throw this idea out there anyway. If any of you doesn't have any of Wolfe's collections, then that one (The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories) is the one to begin with, both because it's first and because it's best. _______________________________________________

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jonathan Goodwin <joncgoodwin at gmail.com> wrote: I'm actually teaching Island of Dr. Death, etc., in an introduction to short fiction class in a few weeks. The title of the story is actually "'Cues" (i.e., "Cues [unless it's a misprint]). It's an opaque story, and I'm thinking about what I'll have to say about it in class. I recall some discussion on this list about scatological imagery. Wolfe's stories also allow for a ready introduction to questions of interpretation and intention, as the recent discussions about An Evil Guest show.