Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008017, Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:31:51 -0700

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Fw: textual error in Ada?
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textual error in Ada?
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From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Don Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: textual error in Ada?




I have been looking quite closely at the paragraph with the anti-roach borax and Dym (part I, chapter 21) -- and no matter how I read it, the first sentence in that paragraph appears to be incomplete.

As it appears in the Library of America edition (on page 106) it reads:


Her intimacy with her cher, trop cher René, as she sometimes called Van in gentle jest, changed the reading situation entirely < whatever decrees still remained pinned up in mid-air.


It seems to me there is a verb missing from "whatever decrees still remained pinned up in mid-air." Perhaps there should be another "remained" after "still remained"? Since translations of Ada are under discussion, could we perhaps see how this sentence was translated?


Thanks,
Carolyn


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