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This is not an anagram.
MOREINAMOMENT
AMEMENTOMORI
We are missing an 'N' (a V.N.?)
James.
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}-------- Original Message --------
}Subject: re: wordplay in Transparent Things
} Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:15:52 +0400
} From: "alex" <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru>
} To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>
}
}Dear Don,
}Your Nabokv-L comment prompts me to make mine, a less subtle one.It
}must have been pointed out long time ago, I want just to say that I,
}too, have noticed it (even before I read any critical comments on
}Transparent Things):The last sentence of the novel's first chapter
}("More in a moment.") yields anagramatically another meaningful phrase
}("a memento mori"). Actually, I don't believe that this fact can be
}unknown to Nabokov scholars and students, but if it is not
}(impossible!), would you give my comment in the Nabokv-L,
}please.
}Alexey
--
Hogamus, Higamus: Man is Polygamous
Higamus, Hogamus: Woman Monogamous
This is not an anagram.
MOREINAMOMENT
AMEMENTOMORI
We are missing an 'N' (a V.N.?)
James.
}
}
}-------- Original Message --------
}Subject: re: wordplay in Transparent Things
} Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:15:52 +0400
} From: "alex" <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru>
} To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>
}
}Dear Don,
}Your Nabokv-L comment prompts me to make mine, a less subtle one.It
}must have been pointed out long time ago, I want just to say that I,
}too, have noticed it (even before I read any critical comments on
}Transparent Things):The last sentence of the novel's first chapter
}("More in a moment.") yields anagramatically another meaningful phrase
}("a memento mori"). Actually, I don't believe that this fact can be
}unknown to Nabokov scholars and students, but if it is not
}(impossible!), would you give my comment in the Nabokv-L,
}please.
}Alexey
--
Hogamus, Higamus: Man is Polygamous
Higamus, Hogamus: Woman Monogamous