Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0012341, Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:48:33 +0100

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Search the Nabokv-L archive at UCSB:The first thing that comes to mind is
the following:

"Paronomasia is a kind of verbal plague, a contagious sickness in the world
of words." (Bend Sinister, Introduction, p. ix, McGraw-Hill, 1973)

A. Bouazza.

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Subject: urgent question-puns


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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:46:04 -0800
From: [Marin Turk] <marintorque@GMAIL.COM>
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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows where Nabokov said ( or wrote) that making
word puns was a form of escapism. I know I read it somewhere, but can't
recall where. This has been bugging me for weeks!
Thank you all
Marin



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