Borrowed from PYNCHON-L
On Thu, 3 Jul
2003, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> From: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper@hatguild.org>
>
> Given VN's penchant for anagrams, this tool might
prove useful:
>
> http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
Is that based on a Wordsmith College
server?
> Some interesting results on the obvious
ones:
>
> Pale Fire: LEAF PIER, FEAR PILE, RAPE LIFE, A LIFE PER,
APE LIFER, APE
> FLIER, APE RIFLE, REAP LIFE, PA LIFE RE
The title
is an allusion, not an anagram.
> Kinbote: BE I KNOT, BE KIN TO, BIKE
NOT, BOT KINE, BON KITE, NOB KITE
These are important.
> Shade:
HEADS, HADES, SAD HE
Shade's name means what it says.
> Gradus:
A DRUGS, DRAG US, GUARDS, SAD RUG, AS DRUG
Other ways to play with
Gradus's name will show themselves as we read....
> Maud: DUMA, A
MUD
The Russian parliament (?!)
> Aunt Maud: A DUMA NUT, A
DATUM UN
Sounds like something from her message in the barn.
>
Hazel: Hazel
>
> Zembla: No anagrams found.
>
> I
include the last two because I like the poetry of there being only one
>
possible combination for Hazel, and there being no possible combination
for
> Zembla.
Ah, but if you take the Scrabble score for "ZEMBLA"
(10+1+3+3+1+1) and
run it through a formula developed by Blavdo V. Namirik,
it translates out
to "A DISTANT NORTHEN LAND."
Cheers,
Kevin
T.
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