Vladimir Nabokov

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Subject: Re: Abraham Milton
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:58:17 -0700
From: Matthew Roth <mroth@MESSIAH.EDU>
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Alexey, I don't have it in front of me, but isn't the father in "Scenes
>From the Life of a Double Monster" also named Ibrahim? If that story
takes
place in Turkey, as I think it does, this could also relate to the
notoriously debauched Ibrahim I (the crazy), the Ottoman ruler.

Matt Roth

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