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Query: Family tree puzzle in ADA (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE. Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu> sends the item below
with a prefatory comment... One answer to Andy Shaindlin's question may be
found in the ADA chapter of D. Barton Johnson's _Worlds in Regression:
Some Novels of VN_ (Ann Arbor, 1985). It shows that sibling incest has a
long & honorable history in the novel. The ADA section of
the Zimmer Bibliography available on the VN WEB site ZEMBLA http:
//www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm should be
consulted for general information on ADA. Finally, Brian Boyd's extensive
"Annotations to ADA" running serially in THE NABOKOVIAN are
indispensable. They now cover through Chapter 6.
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Dear Don,
This may amuse you, and give you hope. It's from an alumni group E-list
(Brown U), and, of all things, they are discussing ADA!!! Who says
people don't read or discuss important books any more?! Galya
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:03:59 -0400
From: Andy Shaindlin <shain@UMICH.EDU>
Reply-To: Brown Alumni Discussion List <BRUNONIA@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Family tree puzzle from Nab
In _VN: The American Years_ Brian Boyd says in his book about "Ada" that
Van and Ada are not only brother and sister, but also 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
cousins to each other. I would appreciate an exact explanation of this (in
plain English) since the Durmanov-Veen relationships are somewhat
confusing, to say the least and I am not good at deciphering the family
tree.
THANKS.
Andy '86
shain@umich.edu
with a prefatory comment... One answer to Andy Shaindlin's question may be
found in the ADA chapter of D. Barton Johnson's _Worlds in Regression:
Some Novels of VN_ (Ann Arbor, 1985). It shows that sibling incest has a
long & honorable history in the novel. The ADA section of
the Zimmer Bibliography available on the VN WEB site ZEMBLA http:
//www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm should be
consulted for general information on ADA. Finally, Brian Boyd's extensive
"Annotations to ADA" running serially in THE NABOKOVIAN are
indispensable. They now cover through Chapter 6.
----------------------
Dear Don,
This may amuse you, and give you hope. It's from an alumni group E-list
(Brown U), and, of all things, they are discussing ADA!!! Who says
people don't read or discuss important books any more?! Galya
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:03:59 -0400
From: Andy Shaindlin <shain@UMICH.EDU>
Reply-To: Brown Alumni Discussion List <BRUNONIA@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Family tree puzzle from Nab
In _VN: The American Years_ Brian Boyd says in his book about "Ada" that
Van and Ada are not only brother and sister, but also 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
cousins to each other. I would appreciate an exact explanation of this (in
plain English) since the Durmanov-Veen relationships are somewhat
confusing, to say the least and I am not good at deciphering the family
tree.
THANKS.
Andy '86
shain@umich.edu