The phrase "would have tempted" in my latest
posting should read "would have been tempted". It will be easy for you to excuse
me, once you know that I've never been to an Anglophone country
and have no opportunity to practice my English except reading the Nabokv-l
and writing to the List. Kindly pardon the pedant. I just
hate making mistakes (of which there can be more in my messages than I
think).
A.
Sklyarenko