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Equally, possibly more plausible: Cantabrigian Boffin. VN was both:
Cambridge University and Brainy Sod!
Stan Kelly-Bootle, MA (Cantab)
On 18/05/2012 02:17, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@ATT.NET> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 Frances Assa wrote: One last (?)comment on Kinbote
> associations: VN scrambled his last name to produce his first pseudonym: V.
> Cantaboff. A great name, it brings to mind song and buffo joking. Don't you
> think that the name bears much resemblance to Kinbote--again the letters are
> recycled, only an "i" is added, reemphasizing, perhaps, VN himself: I,
> Cantaboff, Kinbote. Fran Assa
>
> Serves me right for not checking the archives first - Fran Assa solved the V
> Cantaboff as a simple anagram - a simpler solution, and therefore superior to
> mine: I, V Nabacoff
>
> Oh, well - it was a good try,
> K Cuhih
>
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Cambridge University and Brainy Sod!
Stan Kelly-Bootle, MA (Cantab)
On 18/05/2012 02:17, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@ATT.NET> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 Frances Assa wrote: One last (?)comment on Kinbote
> associations: VN scrambled his last name to produce his first pseudonym: V.
> Cantaboff. A great name, it brings to mind song and buffo joking. Don't you
> think that the name bears much resemblance to Kinbote--again the letters are
> recycled, only an "i" is added, reemphasizing, perhaps, VN himself: I,
> Cantaboff, Kinbote. Fran Assa
>
> Serves me right for not checking the archives first - Fran Assa solved the V
> Cantaboff as a simple anagram - a simpler solution, and therefore superior to
> mine: I, V Nabacoff
>
> Oh, well - it was a good try,
> K Cuhih
>
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