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In a message dated 1/13/2008 6:40:34 AM Central Standard Time,
oana139@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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> Dear List,
> I am reading Nabokov's Afterword to Lolita and I was interested in finding
> out who the identity of the "wary old friend F.P." that Nabokov mentions in
> his authorial postface.
> Thank you
> Oana Zayic
>
>
There doesn't seem to be an "F. P." (as a set of initials) in the indices to
either Boyd or the letters. Appell doesn't gloss it either. F. P. , however,
is an abbreviation for "Freedom of the Press," according to an index of
abbreviations.
Sam Gwynn
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oana139@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> Dear List,
> I am reading Nabokov's Afterword to Lolita and I was interested in finding
> out who the identity of the "wary old friend F.P." that Nabokov mentions in
> his authorial postface.
> Thank you
> Oana Zayic
>
>
There doesn't seem to be an "F. P." (as a set of initials) in the indices to
either Boyd or the letters. Appell doesn't gloss it either. F. P. , however,
is an abbreviation for "Freedom of the Press," according to an index of
abbreviations.
Sam Gwynn
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