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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Sklyarenko's Ada as fairy tale]
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:26:16 -0500 (EST)
From: STADLEN@aol.com
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

But he actually calls himself a ‘firebird’: ‘far from having been a frivolous firebird, I was a rigid moralist kicking sin, cuffing stupidity . . . ‘ (Strong Opinions).


I hope it is not too pedantic to point out that a firebird is what he is saying he was NOT. Of course, one could invoke Freud's essay on negation, but I will not...

Anthony Stadlen
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