Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] DN re:: second-rate writers]]
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:28:19 -0500
From: John A Rea <j.rea2@insightbb.com>
Reply-To: j.rea2@insightbb.com
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: <45BDF853.3090606@utk.edu>
Clearly not "American" (and unintelligible to most "unwashed" Americans)
for whom the pbrase is, "King Queen, Jack" (and no "dames" please}.

	John (addressed by linguists, his late first wife and his
`	maternal grandfather as,"Jack")

p. s. I'll make a side bet that this doesn't get past our assiduous 
censors, even though I've slyly attached it to Dmitri's letter, and
although our non-American friends need to know that the term "Knave"
is a non-American usage (I don't use the term here "un-American"

	Jack

EDNote: Au contraire! (even without the challenge!) 

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