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One problem with searches is that they depend too closely on some
precise term, like "Holmes": thus "Call me Ishmael" imbedded in
someone else's novel won't get you Melville. As a case in point, I
find the following from _Ada_ p 8 lines 16 ff to be unadulterated
Sherkock.
"I deduce," said the boy," three main facts:
"that not yet married Marina and her married sister hibernated in
my lieu de naissance
that Marina had her own Dr Krolik....
and that the orchids came from Demon...."
"And I can add," said the girl....
"that my mother was even crazier than her sister."
(plus a couple of non sequiter bits of purely Ada's syntax)
John A. Rea
"D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE. A quick check of the NABOKV-L archive show 6 refs to
> Sherlock. I recall several notes on the matter in other sources. SEE
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> From: redjames@commie.co.uk
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm probably not the first person to think about this (and I suppose
> part of the reason in writing to you is to get you to tell me who else
> has thought about it), but has anyone given any detailed consideration
> to the relationship between Nabokov's works and Conan Doyle's Sherlock
> Holmes stories? This of course runs the risk of becoming an unwittingly
> patronising question, as people will no doubt inform me, politely, but
> briskly, that the Humbert/Holmes nexus, for example, is a fundamental
> point of Nabokov studies, but please forgive an amateur enquiry.
>
> James Womack
> ----------------------.
One problem with searches is that they depend too closely on some
precise term, like "Holmes": thus "Call me Ishmael" imbedded in
someone else's novel won't get you Melville. As a case in point, I
find the following from _Ada_ p 8 lines 16 ff to be unadulterated
Sherkock.
"I deduce," said the boy," three main facts:
"that not yet married Marina and her married sister hibernated in
my lieu de naissance
that Marina had her own Dr Krolik....
and that the orchids came from Demon...."
"And I can add," said the girl....
"that my mother was even crazier than her sister."
(plus a couple of non sequiter bits of purely Ada's syntax)
John A. Rea
"D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE. A quick check of the NABOKV-L archive show 6 refs to
> Sherlock. I recall several notes on the matter in other sources. SEE
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> From: redjames@commie.co.uk
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm probably not the first person to think about this (and I suppose
> part of the reason in writing to you is to get you to tell me who else
> has thought about it), but has anyone given any detailed consideration
> to the relationship between Nabokov's works and Conan Doyle's Sherlock
> Holmes stories? This of course runs the risk of becoming an unwittingly
> patronising question, as people will no doubt inform me, politely, but
> briskly, that the Humbert/Holmes nexus, for example, is a fundamental
> point of Nabokov studies, but please forgive an amateur enquiry.
>
> James Womack
> ----------------------.