Thursday, October 22, 2009

After reading Jennie Lynn's discovery regarding Joyce and Finnegans Wake I was intrigued by the similarities in the two works regarding names and found that the characters of Humbert Humbert and Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker are both given a list of similar nicknames.

Humbert is called: Hum, The Humble Hunchback, Humburger, Humbert the Small, Humbert the Terrible, Hummer, Hummerson, Humbert the Hoarse, Humbert the Wounded Spider, Jean-Jacques Humbert, Hamburg, Homburg, Humbird, Humbug, Humbert the Hound, Humbert the Humble, Humbert le Bel, Humbert the Hummer, Humbert the Cubus, Herr Humbert, Humbert the Popular Butcher, Humbertoldi, San Humbertino Humbert, and Hummerson, to name a few.

Humphrey is called: Humber, Humhum, Humble Humphry, The Hunchback Humphrey, Humpty Dumpty, and St. Hubert.

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