Alexey Sklyarenko:A couple
of anagrams with Veen, just to "divert" folks...Neva is "the legendary river of
Old Rus" (2.1); venena is Latin for "poison" (cf. the line from Blok's poem
about a Jewish chemist: "And before the cabinet inscribed
venena")
JM: A small contribution to your
divertissement on Veen and "venena."
I may later try it on "Ada," but right now "Pale
Fire" is handier. Veen's venom will be fun to track down...
Here are a couple of lines
with venena:
(a) (Kinbote) "The thick venom of envy
began squirting at me;" (b) (CK) "the narstran, a hellish hall where the
souls of murderers were tortured under a constant drizzle of drake venom coming
down from the foggy vault"; (c) (CK) "I regard their references to me as a
mixture of journalistic callousness and the venom of vipers."
There are mentions to poison too (fourteen
pretenders were poisoned, a solitary man can be poisonous in words and deeds, a
masterbuilder ( and his apprentices Yan,Yonny, and Angeling) died by poisoning.
I don't know if I covered all the occurrences.