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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: Gardner/Gardiner
> But what's at stake is not a person, however admirable, having his name
> mildly misspelled, but a masterpiece with its face turned toward a long
> literary after-life but with a pimple permanently on it-a pimple we can't
> remove, because it just might be a beauty spot. The dilemma-did VN simply
> make a mistake, or did he hide some as-yet-unseen extra surprise in the
"i"
> in Gardiner-could become almost as distracting, time-consuming and
> irresolvable as the conflict between readings of "base Judean" vs "base
> Indian" in Othello.
>
> BB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 2/4/2004 7:06 AM
> Subject: Fw: Gardner/Gardiner
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:48 AM
>
>
>
> Big deal. How often, through lapse or typo, has our family name been
> spelled "Nabakov"? How often has my first name been spelled "Dimitri"?
> We learned not to wince too hard, although it's true I've never seen
> such catastrophes befall my hockey homonym.
>
> Cordially,
>
> DN
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: Gardner/Gardiner
> But what's at stake is not a person, however admirable, having his name
> mildly misspelled, but a masterpiece with its face turned toward a long
> literary after-life but with a pimple permanently on it-a pimple we can't
> remove, because it just might be a beauty spot. The dilemma-did VN simply
> make a mistake, or did he hide some as-yet-unseen extra surprise in the
"i"
> in Gardiner-could become almost as distracting, time-consuming and
> irresolvable as the conflict between readings of "base Judean" vs "base
> Indian" in Othello.
>
> BB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 2/4/2004 7:06 AM
> Subject: Fw: Gardner/Gardiner
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:48 AM
>
>
>
> Big deal. How often, through lapse or typo, has our family name been
> spelled "Nabakov"? How often has my first name been spelled "Dimitri"?
> We learned not to wince too hard, although it's true I've never seen
> such catastrophes befall my hockey homonym.
>
> Cordially,
>
> DN