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Re: Query: Luzhin's Pixlok set ? (fwd)
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Date: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:18 PM +0200
From: nabokov <darkbloom@bluewin.ch>
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: RE: Query: Luzhin's Pixlok set ?
As I recall, it was a toy lock-picking set made in England in the early
1900s. There is a description of it elsewhere in VN. One might start the
search with a word-by-word scan of S,M.
DN
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From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
Sent: lundi, 9. août 2004 17:39
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Query: Luzhin's Pixlok set ?
------------------- I just performed a Google search on the word "Pixlok"
from the Foreword to The Defense. Exactly one page turned up, one that
cited the passage from the Foreword, a Nabokovian trap for the cyber-age.
I am guessing that a Pixlok set is a type, possibly a brand, of chess set.
Am I right? I would much appreciate being corrected or enlightened on this
point.
Thanks,
Nat
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EDNOTE. I have always assumed it was a kid's puzzle of some sort. Picking
locks? Might be a British trade name circa 1910? Does any one have an
informed opinion on this?
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
Date: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:18 PM +0200
From: nabokov <darkbloom@bluewin.ch>
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: RE: Query: Luzhin's Pixlok set ?
As I recall, it was a toy lock-picking set made in England in the early
1900s. There is a description of it elsewhere in VN. One might start the
search with a word-by-word scan of S,M.
DN
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
Sent: lundi, 9. août 2004 17:39
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Query: Luzhin's Pixlok set ?
------------------- I just performed a Google search on the word "Pixlok"
from the Foreword to The Defense. Exactly one page turned up, one that
cited the passage from the Foreword, a Nabokovian trap for the cyber-age.
I am guessing that a Pixlok set is a type, possibly a brand, of chess set.
Am I right? I would much appreciate being corrected or enlightened on this
point.
Thanks,
Nat
---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
EDNOTE. I have always assumed it was a kid's puzzle of some sort. Picking
locks? Might be a British trade name circa 1910? Does any one have an
informed opinion on this?
---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L