Just for clarification:


1.  I posted the response (poem included) that --VN himself-- wrote in
the 1970 supplement to <italic>TriQuarterly</italic>.  It was not my
own invention, and I posted it merely out of interest, not to contest
Dmitri Nabokov's earlier post.  I also thought I remembered a list
member struggling to remember the quoted poem that VN wrote? 

2.  I am relieved to hear Dmitri Nabokov's comment that "spoke of" is
a better rhyme for "Nabokov" because that's how I've always pronounced
it.

3.  "Peeney," unfortunately for me, is not exactly natural to the
American ear.  Easy to pronounce, but elicits much questioning and
teasing.  Oh, the torment I suffered on the playground as a child!


Sincerely, 

Molly Peeney

Ph.D. candidate, UW-Madison