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And, or course, re: this etymology of Psyche, it is equally rich that Nabokov's
major papers in science were published in that journal.šš As an aside to
these comments, many lepidopterists are equally grateful to the student's
of Nabokov's literature-- who have enriched lepidopterists' perspective
on "the great man".šš So, the "doings" of the last decade have worked very
well, both ways.
š
KURT JOHNSON
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SEE EDITOR's COMMENT at end
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There is not only one attractive phrase in Stan. Milkowsky's
letter. This may be implied, but psyche means both butterfly and soul in
Greek.šFor all I know, there is (or was) a lepidopterist magazine which
has Psyche for title.šIn a footnote to one of his poems Coleridgešsays that
'psyche means both butterfly and soul '. So to point out the resemblance
of soul to a butterfly does not seem so inadequate, at least as far as ety
mology is concerned.
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Sergei
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Ed. Note. Yes, there is a lepdopterist journal PSYCHE and VN was well aware
of the šanalogy. He often used it in his Russian poetry. šIn response to
ša Russian cleric who made the analogy, VN also remarked that šbutterflies
were attracted to corpses.