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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: IPH solution?
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> I am reading a dreadful novel currently being pushed even on NPR called
"The
> Da Vinci Code." The usual shlock-thriller with an intriguing twist for
> Nabokovians -- lots of information on de-coding (I did not know, for
> example, that anagrams were ever considered sacred, which the author
> claims).
>
> There is quite a bit about the golden mean and the Fibonacci numbers, and
by
> chance, instead of writing the ratio 1.0821 (or whatever it is) as the
Greek
> letter Phi (as in Phi Beta Kappa), it is written PHI.
>
> I wonder iph ...
>
> Carolyn
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EDNOTE. "PHI" (Fie) is not a bad response to Shade's "IPH" (Institute of
Preparation for the Hereafter."
From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: IPH solution?
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
lines) ------------------
> To the List,
>
> I am reading a dreadful novel currently being pushed even on NPR called
"The
> Da Vinci Code." The usual shlock-thriller with an intriguing twist for
> Nabokovians -- lots of information on de-coding (I did not know, for
> example, that anagrams were ever considered sacred, which the author
> claims).
>
> There is quite a bit about the golden mean and the Fibonacci numbers, and
by
> chance, instead of writing the ratio 1.0821 (or whatever it is) as the
Greek
> letter Phi (as in Phi Beta Kappa), it is written PHI.
>
> I wonder iph ...
>
> Carolyn
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EDNOTE. "PHI" (Fie) is not a bad response to Shade's "IPH" (Institute of
Preparation for the Hereafter."