CK: I have to disagree with Alexey's usually excellent English here

 

Carolyn, you disagree with Nabokov's incomparable and precise English - for it is his translation.

 

CK: Satan does not joke lovingly, as is would appear in Alexey's translation, but uses love to make fun of humans.

 

This is exactly what Pushkin is saying.

 

s lyubov'yu:)