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JF pointing to Sergey Karpukhin on Hodge
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--- Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>> But who is paying vira (the Russian equivalent of "kinboot") for the
>> murdered Shade? Nabokov himself? Curious that vira (an obsolete, yet
>> existing, word) is close to both "Vyra" (the name of VN's family
estate)
>> and "Vera" (the name of his wife).
>>
>> Alexey
>
> Dear Aleksey,
>
> Hodge, perhaps?
>
> I suggest that Shade is not shot of course but changes into something
> rich and strange, that is Kinbote himself.
>
> Any other ideas as to the reason for Hodge?
Apparently Hodge is mentioned on the page where Boswell says he
prevailed on Johnson to write Boswell's family history. See
Sergey Karpukhin's post titled "Hodge in Boswell", March 14, 2006.
Jansy: The word you want is "transmogrify". And I envy you for
being in the Amazon. And indeed I can't always tell when
you're joking.
Jerry Friedman
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>> But who is paying vira (the Russian equivalent of "kinboot") for the
>> murdered Shade? Nabokov himself? Curious that vira (an obsolete, yet
>> existing, word) is close to both "Vyra" (the name of VN's family
estate)
>> and "Vera" (the name of his wife).
>>
>> Alexey
>
> Dear Aleksey,
>
> Hodge, perhaps?
>
> I suggest that Shade is not shot of course but changes into something
> rich and strange, that is Kinbote himself.
>
> Any other ideas as to the reason for Hodge?
Apparently Hodge is mentioned on the page where Boswell says he
prevailed on Johnson to write Boswell's family history. See
Sergey Karpukhin's post titled "Hodge in Boswell", March 14, 2006.
Jansy: The word you want is "transmogrify". And I envy you for
being in the Amazon. And indeed I can't always tell when
you're joking.
Jerry Friedman
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