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war-plus-armistice anagram
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война + перемирие + циклоп + Троя + Блок = времири + Пенелопа + Троцкий +
яблоко = Бриарей + ярмо + облик + венец + тело + пик = Велимир + бойня +
Перекоп + кормилица + тритон + гностик + Лолита - орнитолог - Сталин -
тик/кит
война - war
перемирие - armistice, truce
циклоп - Cyclops
Троя - Troy
Блок - A. A. Blok (1880-1921), the poet
времири - "timefinches," Khlebnikov's neologism derived from vremya (time)
and snegir' (bullfinch)
Пенелопа - Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)
Троцкий - L. D. Trotsky (1879-1940), the Soviet minister of war in 1918-25
яблоко - apple (cf. the apple of discord)
Бриарей - Briareus (a hundred-armed son of Uranus and Gaea mentioned in the
Iliad)
ярмо - yoke
облик - look, aspect, appearance
венец - crown
тело - body
пик - peak
Велимир - Velimir Khlebnikov (the penname of Victor Khlebnikov, 1885-1922),
the poet and wordsmith
бойня - slaughter-house; slaughter
Перекоп - the Isthmus of Perekop, the narrow strip of land connecting the
Crimean peninsula to the mainland; in 1919 VN's cousin and best friend Yuri
Rausch von Traubenberg was killed there while fighting the Reds
кормилица - wet-nurse
тритон - triton (in "The Bronze Horseman" Pushkin compares St. Petersburg
after the 1824 flood to a triton)
гностик - Gnostic
Лолита - Lolita
орнитолог - ornithologist
Сталин - I. V. Stalin (1879-1953), the Soviet leader in 1924-53
тик - tic
кит - whale
Alexey Sklyarenko
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яблоко = Бриарей + ярмо + облик + венец + тело + пик = Велимир + бойня +
Перекоп + кормилица + тритон + гностик + Лолита - орнитолог - Сталин -
тик/кит
война - war
перемирие - armistice, truce
циклоп - Cyclops
Троя - Troy
Блок - A. A. Blok (1880-1921), the poet
времири - "timefinches," Khlebnikov's neologism derived from vremya (time)
and snegir' (bullfinch)
Пенелопа - Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)
Троцкий - L. D. Trotsky (1879-1940), the Soviet minister of war in 1918-25
яблоко - apple (cf. the apple of discord)
Бриарей - Briareus (a hundred-armed son of Uranus and Gaea mentioned in the
Iliad)
ярмо - yoke
облик - look, aspect, appearance
венец - crown
тело - body
пик - peak
Велимир - Velimir Khlebnikov (the penname of Victor Khlebnikov, 1885-1922),
the poet and wordsmith
бойня - slaughter-house; slaughter
Перекоп - the Isthmus of Perekop, the narrow strip of land connecting the
Crimean peninsula to the mainland; in 1919 VN's cousin and best friend Yuri
Rausch von Traubenberg was killed there while fighting the Reds
кормилица - wet-nurse
тритон - triton (in "The Bronze Horseman" Pushkin compares St. Petersburg
after the 1824 flood to a triton)
гностик - Gnostic
Лолита - Lolita
орнитолог - ornithologist
Сталин - I. V. Stalin (1879-1953), the Soviet leader in 1924-53
тик - tic
кит - whale
Alexey Sklyarenko
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