Vladimir Nabokov

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Re: QUERY: Orgitrons in ADA?
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I encountered orgitron (organ + neuron + negatron?) only in Ada and suspect the word is either VN's or Amfiteatrov's invention: "had our organs and orgitrons not been asymmetrical, our view of Time might have been amphitheatric and altogether grand."

In Gorky's play "Na dne" ("At the Bottom," 1902) Satin puns: "organism... organon..." (Act One) and mentions "organons poisoned by alcohol"* (Act Four).

orgitron + Na dne = organon + 3 + end (3 = tri = three)

*another character, Actor, used to say that his organism was poisoned by alcohol

October 19 (NS: Nov. 1), 2011, is the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's Lyceum. Kinbote completes his Foreword to "Pale Fire" and commits suicide on October 19, 1959.

There is a superfluous "o" in the subject line of my previous post. "Too many erotic works" are to blame.

Alexey Sklyarenko

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Dear listers,

Gennady Kramer, who's translating my Nabokov's Ada into Russian, wonders what to make of "orgitrons" in "organs and orgitrons," ADA 539, about four pages into Part Four. Can anyone see anything specific?

Brian Boyd

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