Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008134, Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:47:36 -0700

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Fw: IPH solution? (Pale Pire)
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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
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Subject: IPH solution?


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> I am reading a dreadful novel currently being pushed even on NPR called
"The
> Da Vinci Code." The usual shlock-thriller with an intriguing twist for
> Nabokovians -- lots of information on de-coding (I did not know, for
> example, that anagrams were ever considered sacred, which the author
> claims).
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> There is quite a bit about the golden mean and the Fibonacci numbers, and
by
> chance, instead of writing the ratio 1.0821 (or whatever it is) as the
Greek
> letter Phi (as in Phi Beta Kappa), it is written PHI.
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> I wonder iph ...
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> Carolyn
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EDNOTE. "PHI" (Fie) is not a bad response to Shade's "IPH" (Institute of
Preparation for the Hereafter."