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RES: [NABOKV-L] SKB re: Allan Ginsburg in PF
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Stan K-B [to Gary Lipon] for those unconvinced by possible physiognomical
resemblances between Ginsberg and Kinbote, I offer tentative but plausible
support for your suggested model: ALLAN GINSBERG = LENIN¹S GRAB LAG. Here,
Lenin is an obvious symbol for the Zemblan revolutionary regime overthrowing
and hunting down King Charles/Kinbote .both the delay and ultimate failure
in assassinating Kinbote are clearly embedded in the phrase grab lag. QED.
JM: Mathematicians and linguists can conglomerate any kind of grab lag -
just like Nabokov! Cf. Brian Boyd (AY, p.332): One cannot compress into a
single English word as much information as Nabokov often has at his disposal
about a particular word in Pushkin, and then expect the English-speaking
reader to infer correctly, say, that scrab has been chosen not because its
Russian counterpart is a dialect word for grab but because the original
term fuses Russian verbs for snatch and scratch.* Nabokovs diligence in
searching so widely for words so exactly right would be exemplary provided
he explained in every case in a separate prose gloss just why he had to
forage so far.
* - from dialect tsapat(to snatch), and tsarapat (to scratch) to render
Pushkins Russian tsaptsarap as scrab up, by linking grab and
snatch. (VN)
btw: Lewis transmongrelizers take us only as far as the Bandersnatch.
Theres no scratch of gander or banter.
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resemblances between Ginsberg and Kinbote, I offer tentative but plausible
support for your suggested model: ALLAN GINSBERG = LENIN¹S GRAB LAG. Here,
Lenin is an obvious symbol for the Zemblan revolutionary regime overthrowing
and hunting down King Charles/Kinbote .both the delay and ultimate failure
in assassinating Kinbote are clearly embedded in the phrase grab lag. QED.
JM: Mathematicians and linguists can conglomerate any kind of grab lag -
just like Nabokov! Cf. Brian Boyd (AY, p.332): One cannot compress into a
single English word as much information as Nabokov often has at his disposal
about a particular word in Pushkin, and then expect the English-speaking
reader to infer correctly, say, that scrab has been chosen not because its
Russian counterpart is a dialect word for grab but because the original
term fuses Russian verbs for snatch and scratch.* Nabokovs diligence in
searching so widely for words so exactly right would be exemplary provided
he explained in every case in a separate prose gloss just why he had to
forage so far.
* - from dialect tsapat(to snatch), and tsarapat (to scratch) to render
Pushkins Russian tsaptsarap as scrab up, by linking grab and
snatch. (VN)
btw: Lewis transmongrelizers take us only as far as the Bandersnatch.
Theres no scratch of gander or banter.
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