Stan,
No, I don't know the Dudley theorem, but I have
read (perhaps, not to the end) "War and Piece". One of its main characters,
Pierre Bezukhov, attempts to to prove mathematically, so to speak, that he
is bound to kill Napoleon (the Antichrist whose symbolic number is 666). If
I remember correctly, he wants the numerical sum of alpabet letters (A = 1, B =
2, C = 3, etc.) forming his name to equal 666. I believe he has
to add the meaningless "l'prince" before his name spelled after
a French fashion (Pierre Besuhoff) to get the desired
total.
I find all further discussion of my theory too
time-consuming and "counterproductive" and would like to stop
participating in it. I shall only say that there is more logic and less
arbitrariness in my anagrams than you want to see in them. This logic
will be quite transparent to the reader of my entire piece.
Also, if Nabokov had written ADA in Russian,
he might have chosen Ada, ili Sharada ("Ada, or the
Charade") for a title.
Alexey Sklyarenko