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Fwd: RE: Nabokov's Lips to Lips & Vinnichenko
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Re Mikhail Nazarenko's interesting paper:
"Leopard - eto vse zhe ne panthera" ["But leopard and panther are not the same
thing"]
-- In fact, they are.
The black panther is just a so-called melanistic form of a leopard, especially
common in Asia. Same species.
Nabokov knew that of course; is it too much to expect such an esotheric
knowledge from modern literaturoveds?
Also, anybody familiar with Russian poetry would recall Gumilev's most famous
line "Leopard, ubityi mnoyu, brodit v komnate moei" ["The leopard that I killed
is walking in my room"].
Victor Fet <fet@marshall.edu>
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"Leopard - eto vse zhe ne panthera" ["But leopard and panther are not the same
thing"]
-- In fact, they are.
The black panther is just a so-called melanistic form of a leopard, especially
common in Asia. Same species.
Nabokov knew that of course; is it too much to expect such an esotheric
knowledge from modern literaturoveds?
Also, anybody familiar with Russian poetry would recall Gumilev's most famous
line "Leopard, ubityi mnoyu, brodit v komnate moei" ["The leopard that I killed
is walking in my room"].
Victor Fet <fet@marshall.edu>
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