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No wonder...it must be true.
Blue whale, with its penis the largest existing at 11 feet, capable of
expelling 400 gallons of sperm upon ejaculation.
(THIS kind of information is very easy to find on Internet)
Victor Fet
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of Donald B. Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:01 PM
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Subject: Fwd: deja-vue
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:21:29 +0300
From: alex <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru> I was reading a brilliant, very
funny and sad, novel by Sergei Gandlevski, <NRZB> ("Illegible"), last
night and was struck, with amusement, by the sentence that ended as
follows:
"...listened to Dodik Shapiro's instructive story about his zoologist
acquaintance who had been killed on the spot by the ejaculation of a
blue whale."
The themes of death and sex, and even a sea mammal, are all here, in
this sentence. Only the blue whale has been substituted, by the genius
of coincidence, for our friend walrus. Zabavno!
The novel can be read (in Russian) at
http://magazines.ru/znamia/2001/1/gand.html
One feels the influence of VN, especially of Pale Fire, although it is
Clair Quilty, not Kinbote, who is mentioned at one point.
Alexey
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Blue whale, with its penis the largest existing at 11 feet, capable of
expelling 400 gallons of sperm upon ejaculation.
(THIS kind of information is very easy to find on Internet)
Victor Fet
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of Donald B. Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:01 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Fwd: deja-vue
----- Forwarded message from sklyarenko@users.mns.ru -----
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:21:29 +0300
From: alex <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru> I was reading a brilliant, very
funny and sad, novel by Sergei Gandlevski, <NRZB> ("Illegible"), last
night and was struck, with amusement, by the sentence that ended as
follows:
"...listened to Dodik Shapiro's instructive story about his zoologist
acquaintance who had been killed on the spot by the ejaculation of a
blue whale."
The themes of death and sex, and even a sea mammal, are all here, in
this sentence. Only the blue whale has been substituted, by the genius
of coincidence, for our friend walrus. Zabavno!
The novel can be read (in Russian) at
http://magazines.ru/znamia/2001/1/gand.html
One feels the influence of VN, especially of Pale Fire, although it is
Clair Quilty, not Kinbote, who is mentioned at one point.
Alexey
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