[EDNote: sorry, this one is out of order. ~SB]
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Forgive me Alexey. Addressing you as Sergey must have been a
late-night, post-supper lapsus-calamiri. Or perhaps you failed to spot
my obvious 5-step Word Golf transformation? ALEXey -> FLEXey ->
FLEGey
-> SLEGey -> SEEGey -> SERGey
(computing time: 0.05 seconds)
I'm glad you recognized my gematrial "coincidence" as nonsense. That
was the intention: a far-from-subtle hint that the spurious mangling
of letters and numbers can lead one astray.
The ancient Pushkin House docent I met during my last visit to St
Petersberg (the city name had just been restored) was a survivor of
the world's grimmest siege.
You, the king of links, the tsar of mappings, ask me to explain my
connections!
You who found pages of cryptic connections between Ada and the
spellings of Neva, Labrador, whatever. I simply "found" a deliberately
dubious connection between the size of the novel and the major
historical event in its author's and your birthplace. Cleverly
pitched, just like yours, to be unfalsifiable.
PS: do you know the Dudley theorem? For any given character string
(Nabokov, Kelly, Sklyarenko, Juliar, ...) there's at least one simple,
natural letter->number function that produces the answer 666.
Stone Ceilidh-Bottle
Quoting Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU>:
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> Subject: Fw: [NABOKV-L] reading ADA anagramatically]
> From: "Alexey Sklyarenko" <skylark05@mail.ru>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:46:44 +0300
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> To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> Dear Mr. Kelly-Bottle, My name is not Sergey, and what you write is
> sheer nonsense. It is true that the Siege was /ad/ ("hell") for
those
> inhabitants of Leningrad who had failed to evacuate, but I don't
see
> why you should mention it in connection with Ada.
> Alexey Skyarenko
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