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Pnin query
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EDITOR's NOTE. Gennady Barabtarlo's _Phantom of Fact. A Guide to Nabokov's
PNIN__ is, of course, the best resource for PNIN questions and,
additionally, the author has a particular interest in anagrams. He has a
couple of background notes on the passage quoted below, but nothing
suggesting an anagram. This certainly does not prove that there isn't one.
From: Glick4@aol.com
Does anyone have any pertinent observations
concerning the last paragraph of Pnin, chapter 3, section 3 ("Sometime,
somewhere--Petersburg? Prague?--one of the two musical clowns pulled out
the piano stool...")?
Having just finished my first reading of the book, this passage
seems to jump out in much the same fashion as the ultimate paragraph of
"The Vane Sisters."
Initially struck by the passage's odd diction, I quickly noticed
the alliterative element at the outset, but was unable to get anywhere in
deciphering anything apparent. I have been assured by at least one
authority that VV is pulling my leg, and that there is nothing here beyond
a Pninian seizure; does this collective of Navokovians concur? Further,
does anyone else intuit the aura of M. Belochkin here?
-John Glick
jglick4@aol.com
PNIN__ is, of course, the best resource for PNIN questions and,
additionally, the author has a particular interest in anagrams. He has a
couple of background notes on the passage quoted below, but nothing
suggesting an anagram. This certainly does not prove that there isn't one.
From: Glick4@aol.com
Does anyone have any pertinent observations
concerning the last paragraph of Pnin, chapter 3, section 3 ("Sometime,
somewhere--Petersburg? Prague?--one of the two musical clowns pulled out
the piano stool...")?
Having just finished my first reading of the book, this passage
seems to jump out in much the same fashion as the ultimate paragraph of
"The Vane Sisters."
Initially struck by the passage's odd diction, I quickly noticed
the alliterative element at the outset, but was unable to get anywhere in
deciphering anything apparent. I have been assured by at least one
authority that VV is pulling my leg, and that there is nothing here beyond
a Pninian seizure; does this collective of Navokovians concur? Further,
does anyone else intuit the aura of M. Belochkin here?
-John Glick
jglick4@aol.com