28 June 2013

Dick Tracy





Nhân vật thám tử Dick Tracy trong truyện tranh của Chester Gould được nhắc đến ở chương 18, phần II, Lolita với chi tiết chiếc mặt nạ Jutting Chin.

As happens with me at periods of electrical disturbance and crepitating lightnings, I had hallucinations. Maybe they were more than hallucinations. I do not know what she or he, or both had put into my liquor but one night I felt sure somebody was tapping on the door of our cabin, and I flung it open, and noticed two things—that I was stark naked and that, white-glistening in the rain-dripping darkness, there stood a man holding before his face the mask of Jutting Chin, a grotesque sleuth in the funnies.