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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: don barton johnson
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 6:42 AM
Subject: concerning Rastelli
Dear Don,
I checked in almost all the stories that I could open ( some were written in Russian...), also in Ada, LSK, Pnin and Lolita. If the button for " Localize the word" functions, there was no Rastelli reference in them.
If you are so certain that you´ve read about him in VN it must have been in SO or in the interviews, perhaps in Speak Memory? I don´t have those in the internet, so they have to be checked page after page...
I had put my stakes on the "Italian" texts ( Allepo, Fialta...) and I discovered a curious story about two brothers, not twins, with a play with space-time and a small doll hidden under a bed. One of the brothers was Anton, like in the Lichberg story.VN´s was " The Leonardo" and you remember, there he writes about illusions, counterfeits and falsifications ( actually, a common theme, as it also arises in La Veneziana...). I was not too thorough but I couldn´t find Rastelli in them either.
Best,
Jansy