Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0024898, Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:01:40 +0300

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Dr Mertvago & Dr Swissair
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Why not just call a turnip a turnip?

You mean "parsnip" (pasternak)?

Do you also despise that other nabokovian bete noir, Albert Schweitzer?

Never heard of him (unless he is "Dr Swissair of Lumbago" mentioned in Ada by Dorothy Vinelander).

There was once Doctor Mertvago
who lived in a place called Lumbago...

shamelessly,
Alexey

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