Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009631, Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:59:05 -0700

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Fw: Appel/Lolita query about anagram/acrostic
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From: "Brian Howell" <fanshaw@123mail.org>

> Maybe my brain is just tired, but Appel says in his Annotations on p. 402
> (Vintage, US, 1991) to p. 195, note 2 (for Part II, Chap. 11) 'the first
> letters of the teachers' names have been transposed. "Corrected", the
> names combine to form an obscene verb'. I think the names he is referring
> to are Miss Horn, Miss Cole, and Miss Molar, but I don't know if you are
> supposed to include Miss Redcock (!)and Miss Cormorant, let alone Pratt
> in this sequence, or even the only the first letter or first letters of
> each name. Anyway, if anyone can figure this out, please let me know -
> and if it's too disgusting just write to me off-list.
>
> Brian Howell
>
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