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----- Original Message -----
From: alex
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: One Letter
I thought of the possibility that the disappearance of l from "world" might have something to do with the L disaster. But it is unclear how this l-dropping would give rise to the notion of 'Terra' and lead to the ban on electricity on Antiterra. True, the l-less "word" is slovo in Russian, and "Slovo" is the name of the magazine where both the electricity article and the Paul Alexis story ("La fin de Lucie Pelegrin") used by Lucette for sending Van a dream from Terra appeared. But, still, the connection seems too vague to me.
Alexey
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Fw: One Letter
----- Original Message -----
From: Oleg Dorman
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:56 AM
Subject: One Letter
Reading the sparkling discussion on Terra and Logos (in fact, A. Sklyarenko brilliant argumentation) I want to make a tiny footnote:
Nabokov points that difference between cosmic and comic is one letter S. I'd add, that difference between Word and World is also in one letter.