Funny, Mike Marcus sent me a link (off-list) to the very same a couple days ago:
It occurred to me after Aleksey's post this morning that list members might want to consider in this context Eric Naiman's discussion of the root "ver" in his Nabokov, Perversely, especially pp 89-97 in the chapter "Perversion in Pnin". ~SB
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