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Query: "Sonic vista"? (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Sergey B. Il'in <isb@glas.apc.org> is the Moscow translator
of most of Nabokov's English novels into Russian.
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>From: Clarence Brown <cb@Princeton.EDU>
>QUERY:
>Somewhere in Nabokov, unless I've invented this, a character
>picks up the phone, dials a number, waits, hears the receiver at the
>other end lifted, but hears no human voice. Nabokov writes that "a
>sonic vista opened up." I would be endlessly beholden to any Nabokovian
>who can tell me where this takes place in Nabokov's work.?
>
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ANSWER:
"Suddenly there was a click, a sonic vista, the response of heavy
breathing..." "Pnin" VII.6
Best
Nashe delo veseloe
EDITOR's NOTE. Sergey B. Il'in <isb@glas.apc.org> is the Moscow translator
of most of Nabokov's English novels into Russian.
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>From: Clarence Brown <cb@Princeton.EDU>
>QUERY:
>Somewhere in Nabokov, unless I've invented this, a character
>picks up the phone, dials a number, waits, hears the receiver at the
>other end lifted, but hears no human voice. Nabokov writes that "a
>sonic vista opened up." I would be endlessly beholden to any Nabokovian
>who can tell me where this takes place in Nabokov's work.?
>
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From
ANSWER:
"Suddenly there was a click, a sonic vista, the response of heavy
breathing..." "Pnin" VII.6
Best
Nashe delo veseloe