Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008579, Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:17:15 -0700

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Fw: Fw: Linguistic showoffs
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From: "Tom Learmont" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
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> Dear Don and List...
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> Mea culpa!
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> My memory played me false; it was Quilty playing the show-off and Humbert
> who was caught:
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> "...such assumed names as 'Arthur Rainbow'-- plainly the travestied author
> of Le Bateau Bleu -- let me laugh a little too, gentlemen -- and 'Morris
> Schmetterling' of L'Oiseau Ivre fame (touche, reader!)
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> Next time I shall read before I leap.
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>
> ....Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello (that's a very long name!)
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> And so mellifluous!
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>
> Regards