Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019669, Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:09:21 +0000

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Re: Dostoevski and psychoanalysis
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Alexey: your short anagrams are indeed amusing. Some of the longer published
anagrams go beyond a passing smile to a gasp of disbelief. The following are
both anagrams of Hamlet’s soliloquy starting “To be or ...” up to “by
opposing, end them.”

1: Is a befitting quote from one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. But
why won't Hamlet's inspiring motto toss our stubborn hero's tortuous battle
for life, on one hand, and death, on another?

2: I wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, and the wife and I got together, did
most of his sonnets for our entertainment. But tomentors oft attribute that
our brash quotes as being bogus. O! no! no! no!

I’m sure you would want to distant yourself from those well-meaning but
misguided Oxfordians and Baconians (et al) who take anagram 2 (and many
similar) as disproving Shakespeare’s authorship.

Your next mission, Alexey, if you should accept the challenge:
Find passages in TOoL that effectively give ANAGRAMMATIC permission to Vera
and DN to override VN’s last Will, and publish (written confirmation of VN’s
dream-contacts with his son). You are free, of course, to exploit all known
similarities, past and present, between Roman and Cyrillic characters.
Stan Kelly-Bootle

On 19/03/2010 18:26, "Alexey Sklyarenko" <skylark05@MAIL.RU> wrote:

> Your own anagram theory must certainly apply to still another kind of creation
> (which I don't think has irony or humor as its chief aim). Real life and
> fiction are intermingled in a different way. [citing JM, I think? SKB]
>
> True, but some of my anagrams are really amusing and I hope will make one
> smile:
>
> MARX + ENGELS = ELSINOR + GAMLET + EХIT ^ TOILET ^ I (Gamlet is the Russian
> spelling of Hamlet; in Ada, Gamlet is a Russian hamlet near Ardis Hall)
>
> ТОЛСТОЙ + ДОСТОЕВСКИЙ = СТОЙЛО + СКОТ + ЗЛОДЕЙСТВО + АИ ^ ЗОЛА = ТОЛСТОЕВСКИЙ
> + ДОМОСТРОЙ ^ РОМ
>
> Толстой - Tolstoy
> Достоевский - Dostoevski
> стойло - stall
> скот - cattle; beast
> злодейство - villainy; evil deed
> Аи - Ay (champagne)
> зола - ashes, cinders
> Толстоевский - Tolstoevski
> домострой - domestic tyrrany; Domostroy is a book written in the 16th century
> for the young tsar Ivan Vasilievich, a code of moral and religious rules of a
> Muscovite
> ром - rum
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko
>


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