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Re: Smuggling guns and emeralds in PF
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Dear Sergei,
IN reply to your queries: 1)Yes, it would have been easy. 2)
"Izumrudov"/ Emerald are the same person. Emerald is a Wordsmith
faculty member
whom Botkin/Kinbote transforms into part of his Zemblam fantasy. "Izumrud" is
the Russian word for the gem stone emerald". It is one of several such
pairings.
Don Johnson
Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> Dear all -
>
> I've been looking Jerry Friedman's timeline for PF and it reminded me
> two questions I would like to ask:
>
> a) Is it conseivable that (in 1959) a passenger could have
> a gun on him (or in his luggage) during a transatlantic flight
> (if Gradus was a real person,could he bring a gun with him
> without problems)?
>
> b) What could mean the parallel "Izumrudov"/ Emerald
> (Izumrud = Emerald in russian).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sergei Soloviev
>
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IN reply to your queries: 1)Yes, it would have been easy. 2)
"Izumrudov"/ Emerald are the same person. Emerald is a Wordsmith
faculty member
whom Botkin/Kinbote transforms into part of his Zemblam fantasy. "Izumrud" is
the Russian word for the gem stone emerald". It is one of several such
pairings.
Don Johnson
Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> Dear all -
>
> I've been looking Jerry Friedman's timeline for PF and it reminded me
> two questions I would like to ask:
>
> a) Is it conseivable that (in 1959) a passenger could have
> a gun on him (or in his luggage) during a transatlantic flight
> (if Gradus was a real person,could he bring a gun with him
> without problems)?
>
> b) What could mean the parallel "Izumrudov"/ Emerald
> (Izumrud = Emerald in russian).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sergei Soloviev
>
> 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
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