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

ANSWER: Humbert Humbert
<HG, American Literature>
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