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Re: SM query: the Inst. M.M. of Tirana (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Zotan Kuzmanovich's <ZOKUZMANOVIC@DAVIDSON.EDU>
reply below looks very plausible. ZoraN Kuzmanovich is the editor of
NABOKOV STUDIES whose third annual issue is out TODAY. Please order from
Prof. Kuzmanovich and, still better, urge your library to put in a
standing order while back numbers (1994 & 1995) remain available. Some of
the most important Nabokov scholarship in the world appears in this
journal. For representative articles by Brian Boyd and Leona Toker from
numbers I & II, see http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
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I remember my Balkan relatives making mention of Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy in Tirana (it was supposedly doing research in the technology of ore
processing), but though it yields "M.M.", I am not up to making any
clever links to Cambridge education or Nabokovian prose.
Zoran Kuzmanovich
>
>From: Sergey Il'yn <isb@glas.apc.org>
>
>On p. 268 of the Putnam's edition of _Speak, Memory!_ (Chptr 13, section
>4), VN comments that Cambridge had little impact on him: "Scholastically,
>I might have well gone up to the Inst. M. M. of Tirana." The comparison
>makes a nice metaphor but perhaps the "Institute M. M. of Tirana"
>(Albania?) is real? And in any case, what might the two "M"s stand for?
reply below looks very plausible. ZoraN Kuzmanovich is the editor of
NABOKOV STUDIES whose third annual issue is out TODAY. Please order from
Prof. Kuzmanovich and, still better, urge your library to put in a
standing order while back numbers (1994 & 1995) remain available. Some of
the most important Nabokov scholarship in the world appears in this
journal. For representative articles by Brian Boyd and Leona Toker from
numbers I & II, see http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
----------------------------------------------------------
I remember my Balkan relatives making mention of Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy in Tirana (it was supposedly doing research in the technology of ore
processing), but though it yields "M.M.", I am not up to making any
clever links to Cambridge education or Nabokovian prose.
Zoran Kuzmanovich
>
>From: Sergey Il'yn <isb@glas.apc.org>
>
>On p. 268 of the Putnam's edition of _Speak, Memory!_ (Chptr 13, section
>4), VN comments that Cambridge had little impact on him: "Scholastically,
>I might have well gone up to the Inst. M. M. of Tirana." The comparison
>makes a nice metaphor but perhaps the "Institute M. M. of Tirana"
>(Albania?) is real? And in any case, what might the two "M"s stand for?