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Subject:	Midges-Midgets addendum
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:14:49 -0600
From:	Matthew Evans <mevans@fiber.net>
To:	NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

One quick thing I thought of later: perhaps the substitution of
"midget" for "midges" was Nabokov's own subtle homage to N. Gogol's
metaphor-generated homunculi, which tiny Gogolian population Nabokov
chronicles in great detail. (Or so it seemed at least to me.)

--Matt Evans

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