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Subject:	RE: [NABOKV-L] A phrase from Lenin
Date:	Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:21:37 -0500
From:	Fet, Victor <fet@marshall.edu>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:	A <fc.0075824e02271f370075824e02271f37.2271f53@fcmail.hum.au.dk>

Dear List:

Since "to lack social significance" ("ne imet' obshchestvennogo znacheniya") is such a cliche' used by any ideological hack in Russia starting well before Pisarev and Chernyshevsky, I doubt it can be traced specifically to Lenin.

Incidentally, Valerii Bryusov even wrote a poem titled "To one of the brothers who reprimanded me on my poems lacking social significance", addressed to his younger brother who chided Bryusov with a poem in Latin that began "Falsus Valerius, duplex lingua!"

Victor Fet

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