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----- Forwarded message from skylark05@mail.ru -----
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:30:16 +0300
From: Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>
Reply-To: Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn & Bear/Russia
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn & Bear/RussiaI was speaking in haste (vpopykhakh),
but in earnest.
Alexey
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From: Donald B. Johnson
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:49 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn & Bear/Russia
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:28:11 -0800
From: Carolyn <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
The connection between berries, barin (Russian for "master") and Baer
(German for "bear") at first seemed far-fetched to me, but probably it is not!
Because all those words, and the word bor (Russian for "pinewood"), occur in
Eugene Onegine, Canto Three and Canto Five:
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!?
Carolyn
p.s. Perhaps Alexey is making a joke?
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EDNOTE. Perhaps so, but, as I pointed out many years ago, the main characters
and plot of ADA are to be found in two stanzas of Eugene Onegin. Also even far
fetched suggestions sometimes trigger other useful idea.
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The connection between berries, barin (Russian for "master") and Baer
(German
for "bear") at first seemed far-fetched to me, but probably it is not!
Because
all those words, and the word bor (Russian for "pinewood"), occur in Eugene
Onegine, Canto Three and Canto Five:
!?
Carolyn
p.s. Perhaps Alexey is making a joke?
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