Question

This character belatedly realizes that his barber’s son is 30 years dead in a passage examined in a chapter of Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, (15[1])titled “The Barber of Kasbeam.” A Billy Collins collection takes its title from this character’s (15[1])parenthetical description of his “very photogenic” mother’s death: (15[3])“picnic, lightning.” (15[1]-5[1])This (15[1])character (15[1])parodies “Ash Wednesday” (15[1])by repeating “because you took advantage…” as he confronts a (-5[1])(*) porno director nicknamed “Cue” who drives a (10[1])red Aztec convertible. (10[2])This character (10[1])describes “the tip of the tongue (-5[1])taking a trip of three steps down the palate” as (10[1])his nickname for a girl (10[1])whom (10[1])he enrolls in school in Beardsley. (10[1])Annabel Leigh inspires this character’s love for the (10[1])“nymphet” (10[1])Dolores Haze. For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])protagonist of Lolita (10[1])by Vladimir Nabokov. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Humbert Humbert
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