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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:18:09 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn & Bear/RussiaDear Don and List,
Reading Nabokov is, for me, a delight constantly renewed, but I don´t treat him
as a prophet nor as the keeper of biblical wisdom.
Beside all the more serious literary enjoyment I also expect those
self-referential surprises when, behind a "still-life painting with nuts", I
discover a hidden trove with a nut - without having to move together with Aqua
to her "Nusshaus" or hear her doctors "garrulously pour hateful instructions
in Russian-lapped German into her hateful bidet"...
Jansy
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From: Donald B. Johnson
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Subject: Fwd: Re: Burnberries: Ardis/Burn & Bear/Russia
----- Forwarded message from chaiselongue@earthlink.net -----
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:28:11 -0800
From: Carolyn <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
The connection between berries, barin (Russian for "master") and Baer
(German for "bear") at first seemed far-fetched to me, but probably it is not!
Because all those words, and the word bor (Russian for "pinewood"), occur in
Eugene Onegine, Canto Three and Canto Five:
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!?
Carolyn
p.s. Perhaps Alexey is making a joke?
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EDNOTE. Perhaps so, but, as I pointed out many years ago, the main characters
and plot of ADA are to be found in two stanzas of Eugene Onegin. Also even far
fetched suggestions sometimes trigger other useful idea.
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The connection between berries, barin (Russian for "master") and Baer
(German
for "bear") at first seemed far-fetched to me, but probably it is not!
Because
all those words, and the word bor (Russian for "pinewood"), occur in Eugene
Onegine, Canto Three and Canto Five:
!?
Carolyn
p.s. Perhaps Alexey is making a joke?
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