Dear Don and List,
Reading Nabokov is, for
me, a delight constantly renewed, but I donīt treat him as a
prophet nor as the keeper of biblical wisdom.
Beside all the more
serious literary enjoyment I also expect those self-referential
surprises when, behind a "still-life painting with nuts", I discover a
hidden trove with a nut - without having to move together with
Aqua to her "Nusshaus"
or hear her doctors "garrulously pour hateful instructions in
Russian-lapped German into her hateful bidet"...
Jansy
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:49
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Subject: Fwd: Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:28:11
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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.
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?