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Subject:	re: wordplay in Transparent Things
Date:	Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:15:52 +0400
From:	"alex" <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru>
To:	"D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>

Dear Don, 
Your  Nabokv-L comment   prompts me to make mine, a less subtle one.It must have been pointed out long time ago, I want just to say that I, too, have noticed it (even before I read any critical comments on Transparent Things):The last sentence of the novel's first chapter ("More in a moment.") yields anagramatically another meaningful phrase ("a memento mori"). Actually, I don't believe that this fact can be unknown to  Nabokov scholars and students, but if it is not (impossible!), would you give my comment in the Nabokv-L, please.                                                                                  Alexey