Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018883, Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:02:11 -0500

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DN on Playboy mispelling
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There have been profuse apologies from Playboy, explaining that the
unfortunate misprint occurred during a resetting of the type.

DN

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM, jansymello <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:jansy@aetern.us" target=_blank>jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
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Just like with�Tom Rymour's "a posteriori meeting"�suggesting a
tergo�leathery-brown roots... it took me a second contact with
Playboy to discover a blatant mispelling.�Vladimir NabAkov, �in nice
cursive letters!�

I hope that other, more literate�treasures, are still to�came. For
example, by taking as a cue VN's hesitations (he might have been
interrupted by a wealth of associations from his past novels, as it
happened with "lyre" which is not a word easily associated to Flora's
bony non "luxorious" shape...) �





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