Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022194, Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:00:15 +0300

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tapeworms in The Event
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Revshin (a friend of Troshcheykin, Lyubov''s lover; Vera calls him "the confidant") is tall, lean and hirsute. His colleagues dubbed him волосатый глист (a hairy intestine worm; "The Event," Act One).

Cf. Любовь. ...надо писать картины для людей, а не для услаждения какого-то чудовища, которое сидит в тебе и сосёт.
Трощейкин. Люба, не может быть, чтобы ты говорила серьёзно. Как же иначе, конечно, нужно писать для моего чудовища, для моего солитера, только для него.

(Lyubov' says that an artist should paint for people and not to please the monster that sits in him and sucks. Troshcheykin retorts that one should paint for one's own tapeworm, and only for it. Act Three)

Inside Troshcheykin sits a Revshin?

Revshin + baraban = Vera + Barbashin + n (baraban - Russ., drum)

Alexey Sklyarenko

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