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Subject:	Re: [NABOKV-L] (corrected version of previous mail)
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:14:39 +0100 (CET)
From:	soloviev@irit.fr
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

I should notice (for all our "amateurs" of acrostichs etc) that
in this case the acrostich is not perfect from the point of view
of a russian reader - it looks doubtful even that Derzhavin was
conscious that it is there. "Ruinu chti" would be more convincing. 1)
"Ruina" is not russian word; 2)in the expression "ruina chti"
it means rather "ruin read this"; 3) "chtit" ("pochitat") may mean also
"honor", and "ruinU chti" may mean "honor the destruction",
but then actual "ruina" is not right declination; 4) eight lines
is very short poem, and an approximative acrostich with doubtful
meaning may very well be accidential.

Best regards,

Sergei Soloviev

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