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anagramini (the Erminin twinagrams)
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Gemini + Ordnung = Erminin + god + gnu/gun
Bimini + Ruinen + n = Erminin + Bunin + i
Gemini - the Twins
Ordnung - Germ., order
god - Russ., year
gnu - antelope gnu (Adam Kozlevich's car in Ilf & Petrov's "The Golden Calf")
Bimini - a poem (1855) by Heinrich Heine (Bimini is the magic island of Indian legends; whoever visits it is granted immortality and eternal youth; the poem's hero is Don Juan Ponce de Leon, a member of Columbus' expedition who discovered Florida)
Ruinen - village in the Netherlands near Zwolle (a nephew and heir* of the architect David van Veen was a honest but astoundingly stuffy clothier in Ruinen: 2.3; Ruinen = un rien, as the French misspelled the name Heinrich Heine)
Bunin - I. A. Bunin (1870-1953), a poet, novelist and short story writer (see Speak, Memory)
*cf. Eugene Onegin, whose uncle had most honest principles
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Bimini + Ruinen + n = Erminin + Bunin + i
Gemini - the Twins
Ordnung - Germ., order
god - Russ., year
gnu - antelope gnu (Adam Kozlevich's car in Ilf & Petrov's "The Golden Calf")
Bimini - a poem (1855) by Heinrich Heine (Bimini is the magic island of Indian legends; whoever visits it is granted immortality and eternal youth; the poem's hero is Don Juan Ponce de Leon, a member of Columbus' expedition who discovered Florida)
Ruinen - village in the Netherlands near Zwolle (a nephew and heir* of the architect David van Veen was a honest but astoundingly stuffy clothier in Ruinen: 2.3; Ruinen = un rien, as the French misspelled the name Heinrich Heine)
Bunin - I. A. Bunin (1870-1953), a poet, novelist and short story writer (see Speak, Memory)
*cf. Eugene Onegin, whose uncle had most honest principles
Alexey Sklyarenko
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