Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019676, Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:10:54 -0300

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Re: [NABOKOV-L] [QUERY] Gogol and "en passant move of the Pawn"
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JM: "I am following Gogol through the dismal maze of his life and have selected as basic rhythm of my book the en passant move of the Pawn ( please note this).
(Volodya to Bunny, letter 45, August 9, 1942)
A.Sklyarenko: "She, too, had "known the moves", and had loved the en passant trick as one loves a new toy, but it cropped up so seldom, though he tried to prepare those magic positions where the ghost of a pawn can be captured on the square it has crossed". ( TOoL ,card Two, 15)
JM: Great cross-reference, A.S. Now I realize why there were two penciled question-marks, as regards "Gogol/TOoL" and their basic rhythm or allusional inductions. They simply indicated redoubled puzzlement.


S K-B [ to AS]: "Your next mission...Find passages in TOoL that effectively give ANAGRAMMATIC permission to Vera and DN to override VN's last Will...
JM: As you know, in Oxford and in Bacon, that (the author's I) is the question.

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