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Dear Mr Katsell,
If I can't agree with you then I am fatally flawed? Please. I am as
fatally flawed as anybody I guess, but that does rather include us
all. I did use the word "flawless" as hyperbole, by the way.
I studied with Professor Markov from 1970 to 1974 during which time I
took I don't know how many of his courses. He recommended me for
postgraduate work - - I would quote his letter but one of the virtues
he attributed to me was modesty, so I will refrain! I also audited a
seminar he held on Pushkin when he was semi-retired. During that time
he mentioned the Derzhavin acrostic once - - I would assume in a
course on eighteenth century literature. If he is not the unique
discoverer of the acrostic, he was not aware of any other and neither
am I. He really did claim he deserved to win a Nobel Prize - - I
didn't make that up.
Carolyn Kunin