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CK: I meant just what I wrote. The movie, IF considered a link to ADA
via Jansy's Bras d'Or, would offer Alexey even _more_ scope for
concocting anagrams and puns _beyond_ those intended by VN, and
teasing out ever more allusions that might come as a surprise to the
author. Of course, nobody can miss the fact that the movie and the
novel both involve narcotics (just as J&H and PF involve
personality-changes!). And then we can always invoke the formulaic
"there can be little doubt that Nabokov was aware of" followed by,
e.g., "Sinatra's nominated performance as the addicted drummer ..."
Quick as a flash, some underemployed anagrammacist will note that
"Sinatra" is ever so close to "Titania[r]" and we are right into
Onegin -- oops, wrong book -- back to ze drarrink boarrd.
My gentle sarcasm is clearly ineffective.
CTaH
Quoting Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET>:
>
> On Mar 22, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Nabokv-L wrote: If we extend to ADA
> Carolyn K's Pale Fire links to 1950s movies, Bras
> d'Or would point to Otto Preminger's 1955 classic "The Man with the
> Golden Arm." ... [which] offers Alexey the wider field of
narcotics ....
>
> Dear Scouse,
>
> Surely you are jesting, but all seriousness aside, there actually
is a
> heavy, very heavy theme of drugs, narcotics and poisonings in Ada.
In
> fact both Marina and her daughter are serial poisoners. The family
> name provides one clue to this interpretation [see below].
>
> Carolyn
>