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limerick authorship & V Cantaboff riddle
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On May 16, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Jansy wrote: Please note that only the
first limerick was creatred by Knox. At least, according to the
entries in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" (Oxford University
Press, 1979) where God's answer is fittingly listed under
"Anonymous." ... I invented an association of my own to another
fabulous consonant avian solution: Namely, Cantaboff /
"Chantecleer" .... - Inspite of Dmitri's musical career, Vladimir
Nabokov was not overly fond of operas and singing. His father and
Sergei seem to have often attended concerts together. VN was "off"..
Deary Jansy
What you call the "first limerick" doesn't make sense without the
second, so I think they are both the work of MRK, who, being a
monsignor, was very Catholic, and being very Catholic, was very anti-
atheism, which of course is part of the force of the limerick ...
Now, as to V. Cantaboff - just thinking - devious VN may have used the
additional misdirection of using latinate letters to hide cyrillic
ones. So the C of Cantaboff may be an S and the n may be an h. That
would make the letters to unscramble (listing consonants first) V, S,
H, (or SH?) T (or TS?) B FF (aka V) and the vowels a, a, and o.
So perhaps the solution is VV shtob' Fa?? But what is the
explanation?
In my interpretation of PF there was another shto b' [meaning because
& usually transcribed as chtoby, but pronounced shto b'] but I'll have
to go to the archives. Just a mo' ... Sorry, it was nikto b' - nob'dy
b'lieved me then ... If Yantsi is right in surmising a musical (nb
that cant has at least three possible meanings*) interpretation, "fa"
could be the fourth tone of the scale. I am also reminded that the
Mitford sisters called their father "Fa." A musical pun perhaps?
Dmitri, where are you now that we need you?
Ckunin
*cant/chant; can't; cant (can't come up with a good definition - but
sort of a rant?)
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first limerick was creatred by Knox. At least, according to the
entries in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" (Oxford University
Press, 1979) where God's answer is fittingly listed under
"Anonymous." ... I invented an association of my own to another
fabulous consonant avian solution: Namely, Cantaboff /
"Chantecleer" .... - Inspite of Dmitri's musical career, Vladimir
Nabokov was not overly fond of operas and singing. His father and
Sergei seem to have often attended concerts together. VN was "off"..
Deary Jansy
What you call the "first limerick" doesn't make sense without the
second, so I think they are both the work of MRK, who, being a
monsignor, was very Catholic, and being very Catholic, was very anti-
atheism, which of course is part of the force of the limerick ...
Now, as to V. Cantaboff - just thinking - devious VN may have used the
additional misdirection of using latinate letters to hide cyrillic
ones. So the C of Cantaboff may be an S and the n may be an h. That
would make the letters to unscramble (listing consonants first) V, S,
H, (or SH?) T (or TS?) B FF (aka V) and the vowels a, a, and o.
So perhaps the solution is VV shtob' Fa?? But what is the
explanation?
In my interpretation of PF there was another shto b' [meaning because
& usually transcribed as chtoby, but pronounced shto b'] but I'll have
to go to the archives. Just a mo' ... Sorry, it was nikto b' - nob'dy
b'lieved me then ... If Yantsi is right in surmising a musical (nb
that cant has at least three possible meanings*) interpretation, "fa"
could be the fourth tone of the scale. I am also reminded that the
Mitford sisters called their father "Fa." A musical pun perhaps?
Dmitri, where are you now that we need you?
Ckunin
*cant/chant; can't; cant (can't come up with a good definition - but
sort of a rant?)
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