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nikto & nobody (& guess who)
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I've looked through the archives, and I'm reasonably sure
that no one has brought into the dicussion of "nikto b"
an interview that VN gave to a NY television station in
1965.
http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter05.txt
Responding to a question about the pronunciation of his
name, VN says the following: "Every author whose name is
fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's
or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article.
But in my case I always get caught by the word 'nobody'
when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence."
So VN often mistook "Nobody" for "Nabokov."
Matt Roth
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that no one has brought into the dicussion of "nikto b"
an interview that VN gave to a NY television station in
1965.
http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter05.txt
Responding to a question about the pronunciation of his
name, VN says the following: "Every author whose name is
fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's
or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article.
But in my case I always get caught by the word 'nobody'
when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence."
So VN often mistook "Nobody" for "Nabokov."
Matt Roth
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm