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Re: anagram program (fwd)
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EDITORIAL NOTE. Gene Barabtarlo's information on a new anagram program
elicited several responses beginning with Mr. Gann's below. I am
including Barabtarlo's original posting togetther with Gann's answer. A
couple of other responses shall follow as separate postings. AT the risk
of seeming facetious, I would point out that these programs present a new
hypertext option. Any Nabokovian can rewrite any VN text word-for-word
(or perhaps better sentence by sentence) in
anagrammatized form. Cf. my earlier note that, according to my Word 6
Spellchecker, an otherwordly VN may have translated Pushkin's _EUGENE
ONEGIN_ as Pushpin's _Eugene Oregon_. DBJ
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>EDITORIAL NOTE. As many of you know, VN inserted anagrams in many of his
>texts. Gene Barabtarlo, who has solved several of VN's key anagrams,
>provides the following useful information. Since he has not seen the
>program itself, a "hands-on" report (and copy) would be appreciated.
>Especially for DOS or Windows environments.
>----------------------------------------
>> I note that in the latest MacWorld (November, p.166) there is a glowing
>> report on a shareware program called Anagram 1.2, which apparently cracks
>> any English anagram in more ways than ten. This is precisely what a Nabokov
>> scholar of a certain type needs. It's available in Macworld's eWorld and
>> AMerica Online -- and must exist in an IBM format as well.
>
>> Gennady Barabtarlo
>> 451 GCB University of Missouri
>> Columbia, MO 65211
>> 314-882-9454 Fax 314-882-3404
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 10:54:22 -0500
From: rbgann <Richard_Gann@brown.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: anagram program
I have the program in question, but only for the Mac. It's shareware and
I'd be happy to send it via e-mail to any list member who wants it. As to
the existence of a DOS/Windows version, I cannot be certain. The creators
of the program are Andrew Trevorrow and Nick Spencer. Their e-mail
addresses are akt@kagi.com and nspencer@cssip.edu.au, respectively.
It really is quite stunning. It isn't perfect though, when appropriately
queried it failed to emit Vivian Darkbloom, settling for "bloom dark viva
in". It does that sort of thing quite a bit, requiring a certain level of
interactivity to obtain the truly marvelous. It does allow proper names and
the dictionary can be edited.
Sincerely,
Richard Gann
elicited several responses beginning with Mr. Gann's below. I am
including Barabtarlo's original posting togetther with Gann's answer. A
couple of other responses shall follow as separate postings. AT the risk
of seeming facetious, I would point out that these programs present a new
hypertext option. Any Nabokovian can rewrite any VN text word-for-word
(or perhaps better sentence by sentence) in
anagrammatized form. Cf. my earlier note that, according to my Word 6
Spellchecker, an otherwordly VN may have translated Pushkin's _EUGENE
ONEGIN_ as Pushpin's _Eugene Oregon_. DBJ
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>EDITORIAL NOTE. As many of you know, VN inserted anagrams in many of his
>texts. Gene Barabtarlo, who has solved several of VN's key anagrams,
>provides the following useful information. Since he has not seen the
>program itself, a "hands-on" report (and copy) would be appreciated.
>Especially for DOS or Windows environments.
>----------------------------------------
>> I note that in the latest MacWorld (November, p.166) there is a glowing
>> report on a shareware program called Anagram 1.2, which apparently cracks
>> any English anagram in more ways than ten. This is precisely what a Nabokov
>> scholar of a certain type needs. It's available in Macworld's eWorld and
>> AMerica Online -- and must exist in an IBM format as well.
>
>> Gennady Barabtarlo
>> 451 GCB University of Missouri
>> Columbia, MO 65211
>> 314-882-9454 Fax 314-882-3404
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 10:54:22 -0500
From: rbgann <Richard_Gann@brown.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: anagram program
I have the program in question, but only for the Mac. It's shareware and
I'd be happy to send it via e-mail to any list member who wants it. As to
the existence of a DOS/Windows version, I cannot be certain. The creators
of the program are Andrew Trevorrow and Nick Spencer. Their e-mail
addresses are akt@kagi.com and nspencer@cssip.edu.au, respectively.
It really is quite stunning. It isn't perfect though, when appropriately
queried it failed to emit Vivian Darkbloom, settling for "bloom dark viva
in". It does that sort of thing quite a bit, requiring a certain level of
interactivity to obtain the truly marvelous. It does allow proper names and
the dictionary can be edited.
Sincerely,
Richard Gann