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Re: Browning's door and et alia (fwd)
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ATTENTION PNINISTS! As Editor, I hardily endorse the following proposal from
Professor Barabtarlo, the world's leading authority on (but, by no means
to be confused with,) Pnin. All nominations will be held in strictest
confidence by the editor. DBJ
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From: Gene Barabtarlo <GRAGB@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: Browning's door and et alia (fwd)
------------------ A chaser to the preceding: I sent it in on the 14th,
and my "tomorrow" for Pnin 's birthday stood for the 15th, of course. It
has occurred to me in the meantime that it would be jolly to institute a
Pnin Prize awarded annually, on that day, to a somewhat distinguished
American Professor of Russian Extraction. The Board of the VN Society's
Directors could vote on the nominated. The candidate should be an emigre,
anti-leftist and anti-freudist. A strong English accent is a plus, a
Russian one - a disqualifying fault. Should the recipient be a woman, the
prize could be renamed "The Dr Olga Repnin Award". The awards may range
from a football to a train ticket to the AATSEEL conference (non-stop). I
should write to Dmitri Nabokov with the idea -- perhaps the Estate will
sponsor it, especially in consideration of the approaching centenary of
the Perpetual Professor-Emeritus. Of course, the best way to commemorate
the event would be to create an "endowed chair" at Cornell or University
of Washington, but for two different reasons that seems unlikely. GB
Professor Barabtarlo, the world's leading authority on (but, by no means
to be confused with,) Pnin. All nominations will be held in strictest
confidence by the editor. DBJ
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gene Barabtarlo <GRAGB@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: Browning's door and et alia (fwd)
------------------ A chaser to the preceding: I sent it in on the 14th,
and my "tomorrow" for Pnin 's birthday stood for the 15th, of course. It
has occurred to me in the meantime that it would be jolly to institute a
Pnin Prize awarded annually, on that day, to a somewhat distinguished
American Professor of Russian Extraction. The Board of the VN Society's
Directors could vote on the nominated. The candidate should be an emigre,
anti-leftist and anti-freudist. A strong English accent is a plus, a
Russian one - a disqualifying fault. Should the recipient be a woman, the
prize could be renamed "The Dr Olga Repnin Award". The awards may range
from a football to a train ticket to the AATSEEL conference (non-stop). I
should write to Dmitri Nabokov with the idea -- perhaps the Estate will
sponsor it, especially in consideration of the approaching centenary of
the Perpetual Professor-Emeritus. Of course, the best way to commemorate
the event would be to create an "endowed chair" at Cornell or University
of Washington, but for two different reasons that seems unlikely. GB