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Subject:	Re: [NABOKV-L] madness and avian theme in Pale Fire
Date:	Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:11:41 +0000
From:	skb@bootle.biz
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:	<002001c9a4ac$7be78370$471c1154@ALEX1> <B598AE9F-B462-411E-96CC-52E5213457FE@earthlink.net> <001201c9a560$cf3a07a0$801b1154@ALEX1>

Alexey: a word in your final sentence reminds me of one of the
worst translations in the history of opera (which has its share),
and might be by John Shade in one of his many arresting doggerel
moments. From the last Act of Die Meistersinger, that grand
anthem to Deutsches Kunst:

Chorus: Silentium! Silentium!
No noise, not even the merest hum!

CT?H

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