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Subject:	to Matt and Jansy - Laius curse
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:08:29 +0100 (CET)
From:	soloviev@irit.fr
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:	<45F96895.8010407@utk.edu>

Dear Matt,

I greatly appreciate your contributions - but - as far as I see,
you singled out this Pope's translation because of the expression
"Pale Fire" met there. Isn't it one of the first things to check -
was this expression (or its equivalent) be already present in the
original text (Greek?). Pope might be influenced by Shakespeare.

And Jansy -

are the search engines (google) working with English so reliable
when we discuss old texts? (Greek? Latin?)

Cheers,

Sergei

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