This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called "Three Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I recall is his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants, bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for much funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The Cocktail Party" called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience kneeling and singing Adeste, Fideles.
--Tim Henderson

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru> wrote:
Dear all,
 
Nobody seems to have noticed that Siri Bendtsen, the name of the girl who asked the List about the reason of VN's dislike of Dostoevsky, is a Nabokovian anagram. I wouldn't have noticed it myself, if the inventor of this quite plausible Scandinavian name (to whom I had written by chance) didn't invite me to look closer at Siri. The anagram's solving was then the matter of a second.
 
Happy New Year to everybody! (I notice that New Year is an anagram of "near yew"; I suggest that yew should become the Nabokovians' Christmas tree :)
 
Alexey Sklyarenko
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