Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0017561, Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:14:05 -0500

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Re: anagrams
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This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called "Three
Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I recall is
his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants,
bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for much
funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The Cocktail Party"
called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience kneeling and singing
Adeste, Fideles.
--Tim Henderson

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Nobody seems to have noticed that Siri Bendtsen, the name of the girl who
> asked the List about the reason of VN's dislike of Dostoevsky, is a
> Nabokovian anagram. I wouldn't have noticed it myself, if the inventor of
> this quite plausible Scandinavian name (to whom I had written by chance)
> didn't invite me to look closer at Siri. The anagram's solving was then the
> matter of a second.
>
> Happy New Year to everybody! (I notice that New Year is an anagram of "near
> yew"; I suggest that yew should become the Nabokovians' Christmas tree :)
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko
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