Lucida Grande Dieter's annotations and indeed his whole oeuvre are prodigious and inspiring. When I was working on my book on Pale Fire in the mid-eighties, there was no internet, and either I failed to find, or there was not, in the catalogue of the British Library, any mention of Angus MacDiarmid. Splendid that he exists, which contradicts my hypothesis of Kinbote's coinage. Kinbote does coin other names, and the echo of Hugh MacDiarmid is in keeping with Nabokov's method of compilation of related associations. My book does discuss the Kongs-skugg-sja, Hodinski, Ossian, The Song of Igor's Campaign and much else as part of a system of Kinbote's readings, and of their meaning at quite another level for Nabokov himself; my accumulation of annotations suggests that Nabokov reviews three intertwined strains of the history of the North for 1000 years that culminate in his own tragedy.Helvetica0303,0303,0202 Priscilla