Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003526, Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:31:27 -0800

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Re: Nabokov trivia (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE. An item for Russian-reading, game-playing Nabokovians
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From: OKNEANSKI LEONID <okneansk@cip.ub.uni-muenchen.de>

11.
ONI izvestny nam izdavna. Britanskuju vetv' IH roda prerval izvestnyj
svoej svirepost'ju predvoditel' shotlandskogo klana. Soglasno
Nabokovu, odin iz NIH byl byl personazhem odnogo iz samyh pervyh
hudozhestvennyh proizvedenij. Odin iz NIH byl i geroem izvestnogo
proizvedenija, napisannogo v 30-h godah. Nazovite drugogo geroja
ehtogo proizvedenija.
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EDITOR's NOTE. I don't know the game, but the answer presumably has to do
with Lermontov and his supposed connection with the Scottish Learmonts.
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Hi. I got the answer to the question. Some Nabokovians would be
ashamed to find out...
Chto?Gde?Kogda? is a team-game, in which 6 members of a team get to
solve a complex question, involving logic and a little of common
knowledge, in one minute. After one minute passes, their captain has
to submit the answer. Internet Ch?G?K? is a bit different, there are
more people in one team, questions are more complicated, and time
given is longer: 73 hours (3 days and one hour) L.


Here's the answer:
>Otvet: Petja. (ONI - volki.)
>Istochniki:
Pro krovozhadnogo glavu shotlandskogo klana Kamerona Lokielja,
iznichtozhivshego poslednego britanskogo volka, chitajte, naprimer, na
http://member.aol.com/Cam1Info/chiefs.html.

"Vy znaete, kak nachalas' poehzija? Mne vsegda kazhetsja, chto ona
nachalas', kogda pewernyj mal'chik bezhal k sebe v peweru, skvoz'
vysokuju travu, kricha na begu: "Volk, volk", a nikakogo volka ne bylo.
Ego babuinoobraznye roditeli, bol'shie revniteli pravdy, vyporoli ego,
bez somnenija, no poehzija rodilas' - nebylica rodilas' v byl'e."
Dva interv'ju iz sbornika "Strong opinions" // "V.V.Nabokov: Pro et
contra"./ Red. V.N.Nemnonova - St.Peterburg: Izd-vo Russkogo
Hristianskogo gumanitarnogo instituta, 1997, s.140.

"Petja i Volk", S. Prokof'ev, 1936.

Avtor: B. Vovnutar', "B. Chajniki".

Skhema raskrutki: Pervym delom, sleduet otkazat'sja ot zamanchivoj
vozmozhnosti, chto ONI - PIKTY (Hotja ochen' krasivoj byla versija pro
naskal'nye piktogrammy kak personazhi pervyh hudozhestvennyh proizvedenij).
Perebiraja varianty kategorij, v kotorye mogut popast' ONI, sleduet
predpolozhit', chto oni - zhivotnye. V etom sluchae, ehto skoree vsego volki.
Nu, posle ehtogo do "Peti i Volka" - rukoj podat'. Nabokov prisutstvuet tol'ko
kak metka i raskrutke, vidimo, ne pomogaet. Hotja ideja krasivaja.