Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0026622, Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:33:46 +0300

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war-plus-armistice anagram
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война + перемирие + циклоп + Троя + Блок = времири + Пенелопа + Троцкий +
яблоко = Бриарей + ярмо + облик + венец + тело + пик = Велимир + бойня +
Перекоп + кормилица + тритон + гностик + Лолита - орнитолог - Сталин -
тик/кит



война - war

перемирие - armistice, truce

циклоп - Cyclops

Троя - Troy

Блок - A. A. Blok (1880-1921), the poet

времири - "timefinches," Khlebnikov's neologism derived from vremya (time)
and snegir' (bullfinch)

Пенелопа - Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)

Троцкий - L. D. Trotsky (1879-1940), the Soviet minister of war in 1918-25

яблоко - apple (cf. the apple of discord)

Бриарей - Briareus (a hundred-armed son of Uranus and Gaea mentioned in the
Iliad)

ярмо - yoke

облик - look, aspect, appearance

венец - crown

тело - body

пик - peak

Велимир - Velimir Khlebnikov (the penname of Victor Khlebnikov, 1885-1922),
the poet and wordsmith

бойня - slaughter-house; slaughter

Перекоп - the Isthmus of Perekop, the narrow strip of land connecting the
Crimean peninsula to the mainland; in 1919 VN's cousin and best friend Yuri
Rausch von Traubenberg was killed there while fighting the Reds

кормилица - wet-nurse

тритон - triton (in "The Bronze Horseman" Pushkin compares St. Petersburg
after the 1824 flood to a triton)

гностик - Gnostic

Лолита - Lolita

орнитолог - ornithologist

Сталин - I. V. Stalin (1879-1953), the Soviet leader in 1924-53

тик - tic

кит - whale



Alexey Sklyarenko


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