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----- Forwarded message from sklyarenko@users.mns.ru -----
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:21:29 +0300
From: alex <sklyarenko@users.mns.ru>
I was reading a brilliant, very funny and sad, novel by Sergei Gandlevski,
<NRZB> ("Illegible"), last night and was struck, with amusement, by the
sentence that ended as follows:
"...listened to Dodik Shapiro's instructive story about his zoologist
acquaintance who had been killed on the spot by the ejaculation of a blue
whale."
The themes of death and sex, and even a sea mammal, are all here, in this
sentence. Only the blue whale has been substituted, by the genius of
coincidence, for our friend walrus. Zabavno!
The novel can be read (in Russian) at
http://magazines.ru/znamia/2001/1/gand.html
One feels the influence of VN, especially of Pale Fire, although it is Clair
Quilty, not Kinbote, who is mentioned at one point.
Alexey
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