Stan Kelly to Matt on “ pulling out arbitrary strings of text and juggling their letters is unlikely to contribute to serious literary analysis… Nabokov indulges in many forms of word play (puns, mis-allusions, rhyming-slang, acrostics, spoonerisms, anagrams) insignificant and short-lived tics and tricks. Future generations will be as puzzled as we are today by Shakespeare’s dated verbal jokes!”

JM: Perhaps jokes are quicker to get dated because here language is at its most lively, malicious and versatile? To dwell on them too long for decoding is worse than teasing out Freudian recondite Viennese symbols.

Stan has acquainted me with aibophobia, but I lack the correct reference right now: I’m sure it’s not indicative of spelling mistakes in an ideogram.