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[2])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 (-5[1])Aztec convertible. (10[2])This character (10[1])describes “the tip (15[1])of the tongue (-5[1])taking a trip of three steps down the palate” as (10[2])his (10[2])nickname for a girl (10[1])whom (10[1])he enrolls (-5[1])in school in Beardsley. (10[1])Annabel Leigh inspires this character’s love for the (10[1])“nymphet” (10[1]-5[1])Dolores Haze. For (-5[1])10 points, (10[1])name (-5[1])this (10[2])protagonist of (-5[1])Lolita (10[1])by Vladimir Nabokov. (10[2])■END■ (0[2])