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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
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> Alexey's references to Dahl's Dictionary is very interesting. Not only
is
> "the gentle lexicographer" mentioned in the novel as Ada's "darling
Dahlia"
> -- his dates (1801-1872) are the key that I think may have broken the code
> of the Durmanov-Veen family tree.
>
> Dahl is himself represented on the tree by General Durmanov, whose
lifespan
> coincides with Dahl's . It does help to explain how the General knows
about
> aqua Tofana (page 7, LOA edition).
>
> Some of the other "ancestors" on the tree would seem to include:
>
> an actor (Charles Macklin 1699-1797, the first famous Shylock);
>
> several chemist-pharmacists (including the interesting Germain Ivanovich
> Gess or "Henry Germain Hess" 1806-1850 and Antoine Francois Fourcroy,
> 1755-1809, a doctor, chemist and legislator in post-revolutionary France).
>
> Perhaps the most interesting of the "ancestors" that I have been able to
> identify is Francis Abbot (1799-1883) who spent 1845-1849 as a convict in
> Van Diemen's Land. A clockmaker by trade, he was also a physicist and
> astronomer, one of the founders of astronomical science in the Antipodes.
> Perhaps, on Antiterra, he is "the less reputable" of Aqua's ancestors who
> founded "fashionable Brown Hill College" (page 22). Fourcroy and Gess, not
> disreputable in any way that I have been able to discover, were both
> important pedagogically.
>
> This identification by lifespan may eventually explain who Olga Zemsky
> (1773-1814), "an engineer of great genius" (page 70) represents, as well
as
> the rest of that interesting "tree."
>
> Can anyone identify other "ancestors"? Perhaps some of the shorter
> "lifespans" refer to events, rather than people, on Terra?
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
>
From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (38
lines) ------------------
> To the List,
>
> Alexey's references to Dahl's Dictionary is very interesting. Not only
is
> "the gentle lexicographer" mentioned in the novel as Ada's "darling
Dahlia"
> -- his dates (1801-1872) are the key that I think may have broken the code
> of the Durmanov-Veen family tree.
>
> Dahl is himself represented on the tree by General Durmanov, whose
lifespan
> coincides with Dahl's . It does help to explain how the General knows
about
> aqua Tofana (page 7, LOA edition).
>
> Some of the other "ancestors" on the tree would seem to include:
>
> an actor (Charles Macklin 1699-1797, the first famous Shylock);
>
> several chemist-pharmacists (including the interesting Germain Ivanovich
> Gess or "Henry Germain Hess" 1806-1850 and Antoine Francois Fourcroy,
> 1755-1809, a doctor, chemist and legislator in post-revolutionary France).
>
> Perhaps the most interesting of the "ancestors" that I have been able to
> identify is Francis Abbot (1799-1883) who spent 1845-1849 as a convict in
> Van Diemen's Land. A clockmaker by trade, he was also a physicist and
> astronomer, one of the founders of astronomical science in the Antipodes.
> Perhaps, on Antiterra, he is "the less reputable" of Aqua's ancestors who
> founded "fashionable Brown Hill College" (page 22). Fourcroy and Gess, not
> disreputable in any way that I have been able to discover, were both
> important pedagogically.
>
> This identification by lifespan may eventually explain who Olga Zemsky
> (1773-1814), "an engineer of great genius" (page 70) represents, as well
as
> the rest of that interesting "tree."
>
> Can anyone identify other "ancestors"? Perhaps some of the shorter
> "lifespans" refer to events, rather than people, on Terra?
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
>