Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019748, Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:54:57 +0100

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Re: quelque anagramme
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ANAGRAMS!! + NABOKOV!! = AA! + BANG! + NO MARKS! + VO!

AA: (American) Automobile Association; guide used by VN in tracking HH/Lol¹s
itineraries & motels. Also a cry of astonishment.
BANG: sound of HH¹s gun killing Quilty. Also idiom = drop dead!
NO MARKS: low score for irrelevant anagrams! Also phonetic ref. to VN¹s
aversion to Karl Marx, a famous co-founder of Communism.
VO: abb. Voice Over = cinematic device used in Kubrick¹s Lolita, providing
HH¹s inner thoughts.

Stan Kelly-Bootle, DHFS (Dead-Horse Floggers¹ Society).
MAA. AMS, ASCAP, AAAS.

On 23/03/2010 10:45, "Alexey Sklyarenko" <skylark05@MAIL.RU> wrote:

> QUELQUES FLEURS + CHOSE + DUMAS + BELLE = QUELQUE CHOSE + LES FLEURS DU MAL +
> BES
>
> Quelques Fleurs - in Ada, commercial name of Aqua's and Marina's talc powder
> (1.3)
> Chose - Chose University, Van's alma mater (1.30)
> Dumas - A. Dumas pere (1802-70) and A. Dumas fils (1824-95), French dramatists
> and novelists; cf. "AAA explained... to a Negro lad... that Pushkin and Dumas
> had African blood" (1.24)
> Belle - Fr., "beautiful"; Lucette's name of her governess (1.14)
> quelque chose - Fr., something
> Les fleurs du mal - The Flowers of Evil, a book by Baudelaire
> bes - Russ., demon; cf. Bellabestia ("Bess"), old Dan's nurse (2.10), and
> Russian saying sedina v borodu, bes v rebro ("one's beard is turning grey, a
> demon settles in one's rib")
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko


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