Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010512, Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:08:00 -0800

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Re: Fwd: Re: Cervantes & Shakespeare p.s.
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1582 for the Gregorian shift in Catholic countries, but not till 1752 in
England. Read Thomas Pynchon's "Mason and Dixon" for a fantastic chapter set
in the "skipped" days of 1752.