Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019575, Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:19:02 +0300

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another anagram with two TRI-words
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Tribade comes from the Greek word meaning "to rub". Russian for "to rub" is teret'. Tri is imperative mood of this verb, but also means "three" in Russian. Here is a Russian anagram with two "3-words":

ТРИМУРТИ + П + ИТАКА = ТРИПИТАКА + ТИМУР = ПАРТИТУРА + МИСТИК - С

Тримурти - Trimurti
Итака - Ithaca
Трипитака - Tripitaka
Тимур - Tamerlane (Timur)
партитура - (mus.) score
мистик - mystic

Like the 3-words Trimurti (Hinduist trinity) and Tripitaka ("three parts," Buddhist collection of sacred texts), Timur (the name means "iron" in Tartar) is mentioned in Ada (1.39). Ithaca is one of the Ionian islands, the legendary home of Odysseus; a town in the State New York where Nabokov teached at Cornell University.

Alexey Sklyarenko

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