I encountered orgitron (organ
+ neuron + negatron?) only in Ada and suspect the word is
either VN's or Amfiteatrov's invention: "had our organs and
orgitrons not been asymmetrical, our view of Time might have been
amphitheatric and altogether grand."
In Gorky's play "Na dne" ("At
the Bottom," 1902) Satin puns: "organism... organon..." (Act One) and
mentions "organons poisoned by alcohol"* (Act Four).
orgitron + Na dne = organon
+ 3 + end (3 = tri = three)
*another character, Actor, used to say
that his organism was poisoned by alcohol
October 19 (NS: Nov. 1), 2011, is the 200th
anniversary of Pushkin's Lyceum. Kinbote completes his Foreword to "Pale Fire"
and commits suicide on October 19, 1959.
There is a superfluous "o" in the subject
line of my previous post. "Too many erotic works" are to
blame.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: Orgitrons in
ADA?
Dear listers,
Gennady Kramer, who's translating my Nabokov's Ada
into Russian, wonders what to make of "orgitrons" in "organs and orgitrons,"
ADA 539, about four pages into Part Four. Can anyone see anything
specific?
Brian Boyd
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