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Re: "C" "K" "S" in PF solution (tongue-twisters)
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Re: [NABOKV-L] "C" "K" "S" in PF solution (tongue-twisters)the choice of Carl over Karl is no surprise to us mathematicians. The greatest German EVER was christened CARL Friedrich GAUSS (1777-1855).
Dear Stan Kelly-Bottle,
As someone who was born in the Communist state (in 1970), I was habitually thinking of that other Karl (of whom we belatedly found out that he was not the greatest German -- in fact, not a German at all) and quite forgot about one of VN's ancestors, the composer Graun, whose name was CARL Heinrich.
Your 'coincidences' are remarkably UNremarkable
Prel = perl (Russian for "pearl")
pearl = aprel (Russian for "April;" Carl du Prel was born on April 3, 1839, and died the year in which VN, whose life also began in April, was born)
In you opinion, the above is not erstaunlich?
I read only a few chapters of "The Philosophy of Mysticism" (1885), the book by Carl du Prel that appeared, by another coincidence, the same year as Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde was written and that deals almost exclusively with dreams, and those chapters strike me, like Victor's tongue-twister, as strangely Pale Fire-relevant. To Victor's observations about Charles/Karl (their irony didn't escape me) I could add that Kinbote's uncle Conmal addresses him once as karlik, which is Russian for "dwarf." Conmal's address is ironical, because Kinbote is a big tall man, "the Great Beaver." It is Hyde in the Stevenson story who has a dwarfish appearance. In his lecture on R. L. Stevenson, VN points out that both "Hyde" and "Jekyll" are Danish words, just as the word "bodkin" happens to be one. Add to this the fact that the word "kinbote" occurs in "Jekyll and Hyde" (as pointed out by Carolyn).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Dear Stan Kelly-Bottle,
As someone who was born in the Communist state (in 1970), I was habitually thinking of that other Karl (of whom we belatedly found out that he was not the greatest German -- in fact, not a German at all) and quite forgot about one of VN's ancestors, the composer Graun, whose name was CARL Heinrich.
Your 'coincidences' are remarkably UNremarkable
Prel = perl (Russian for "pearl")
pearl = aprel (Russian for "April;" Carl du Prel was born on April 3, 1839, and died the year in which VN, whose life also began in April, was born)
In you opinion, the above is not erstaunlich?
I read only a few chapters of "The Philosophy of Mysticism" (1885), the book by Carl du Prel that appeared, by another coincidence, the same year as Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde was written and that deals almost exclusively with dreams, and those chapters strike me, like Victor's tongue-twister, as strangely Pale Fire-relevant. To Victor's observations about Charles/Karl (their irony didn't escape me) I could add that Kinbote's uncle Conmal addresses him once as karlik, which is Russian for "dwarf." Conmal's address is ironical, because Kinbote is a big tall man, "the Great Beaver." It is Hyde in the Stevenson story who has a dwarfish appearance. In his lecture on R. L. Stevenson, VN points out that both "Hyde" and "Jekyll" are Danish words, just as the word "bodkin" happens to be one. Add to this the fact that the word "kinbote" occurs in "Jekyll and Hyde" (as pointed out by Carolyn).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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