----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: don barton johnson
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 6:42 AM
Subject: concerning Rastelli

Dear Don,
 I checked in almost all the stories that I could open ( some were written in Russian...), also in Ada, LSK, Pnin and Lolita. If the button for " Localize the word" functions, there was no Rastelli reference in them.
    If you are so certain that youīve read about him in VN it must have been in SO or in the interviews, perhaps in Speak Memory? I donīt have those in the internet, so they have to be checked page after page...
    I had put my stakes on the "Italian" texts ( Allepo, Fialta...) and I discovered a curious story about two brothers, not twins, with a play with space-time and a small doll hidden under a bed.  One of the brothers was Anton, like in the Lichberg story.VNīs was  " The Leonardo" and you remember, there he writes about illusions, counterfeits and falsifications ( actually, a common theme, as it also arises in La Veneziana...).  I was not too thorough but I couldnīt find Rastelli in them either.
    Best,
    Jansy