Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022122, Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:57:36 +0300

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Sirin-plus-orgitron anagram
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In my previous post, in which I mentioned Sorin and Trigorin (Sorin + Trigorin = Sirin + orgitron), the characters in Chekhov's play "The Seagull," I interrupted the quote from Ada too early. I now proceed:

The scene is Eocene and the actors are fossils.

In "The Seagull" (Act One), the audience of Treplev's experimental play is shown what will be in two hundred thousand years, when all creatures who lived on Earth are dead (and became thus fossils):

NINA. All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves, starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye--in one word, life--all, all life, completing the dreary round imposed upon it, has died out at last...

Alexey Sklyarenko

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