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Fw: 'pada ata' doesn't add up. Codes in PALE Fire
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Savely Senderovich" <ss51@cornell.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (38
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> Dear Ms. Kunin,
> what reason do you have to trust Kinbote?
> Savely Senderovich
>
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:10 PM
> >Subject: 'pada ata' doesn't add up
> >
> >
> >> I would like to ask the list members if anyone has dealt with this
problem
> >> regarding the spirit message in 'Pale Fire':
> >>
> >> Mrs Provost tells Kinbote that Hazel made 80 attempts to get an
alphabetic
> >> response from the light. Of those she got 17 responses. This
information
> >> allows us to realize that this was how Hazel broke the message up into
> >> 'words,' i.e. she interpreted a non-response as a word-break. However
the
> >> message as transcribed doesn't add up. There should be 63 letters and
17
> >> breaks, but there are only 61 letters and 16 breaks.
> >>
> >> It seems that one word of two letters is missing. I assume this
reflects
> >the
> >> nature of the poem in couplets of 999 lines in some way. Further than
this
> >I
> >> haven't been able to go.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> > Carolyn Kunin
> --
> Savely Senderovich
> Professor of Russian Literature & Medieval Studies
> Cornell University
> Department of Russian, Morrill Hall
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> Tel.: (607)-255-8350 or 2007
> Fax: (607)-255-2044
>
From: "Savely Senderovich" <ss51@cornell.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (38
lines) ------------------
> Dear Ms. Kunin,
> what reason do you have to trust Kinbote?
> Savely Senderovich
>
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:10 PM
> >Subject: 'pada ata' doesn't add up
> >
> >
> >> I would like to ask the list members if anyone has dealt with this
problem
> >> regarding the spirit message in 'Pale Fire':
> >>
> >> Mrs Provost tells Kinbote that Hazel made 80 attempts to get an
alphabetic
> >> response from the light. Of those she got 17 responses. This
information
> >> allows us to realize that this was how Hazel broke the message up into
> >> 'words,' i.e. she interpreted a non-response as a word-break. However
the
> >> message as transcribed doesn't add up. There should be 63 letters and
17
> >> breaks, but there are only 61 letters and 16 breaks.
> >>
> >> It seems that one word of two letters is missing. I assume this
reflects
> >the
> >> nature of the poem in couplets of 999 lines in some way. Further than
this
> >I
> >> haven't been able to go.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> > Carolyn Kunin
> --
> Savely Senderovich
> Professor of Russian Literature & Medieval Studies
> Cornell University
> Department of Russian, Morrill Hall
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> Tel.: (607)-255-8350 or 2007
> Fax: (607)-255-2044
>