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From: <Chaswe@aol.com>
> In a message dated 12/2/02 5:02:21 PM GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
> writes:
>
> << If you claim that Natochdag or Natogdag or Netochka is a major
character
> in Pale Fire, please provide some evidence, since he appears to be a minor
> actor. Miss Natochdag is a major character in one of Isak Dinesen's Seven
> Gothic Tales (The Deluge at Norderney) and Netochka Nezvanova, also
female,
> is a major character in a minor work by Dostoevsky. >>
>
> Netochka may not be a "major figure", but he is an interesting presence,
or
> semi-presence. I wrote a piece about him and his name in the Nabokovian
some
> time ago, but I can't remember the issue number, and have lost it under a
> heap of other publications.
>
> Charles Harrison Wallace
From: <Chaswe@aol.com>
> In a message dated 12/2/02 5:02:21 PM GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
> writes:
>
> << If you claim that Natochdag or Natogdag or Netochka is a major
character
> in Pale Fire, please provide some evidence, since he appears to be a minor
> actor. Miss Natochdag is a major character in one of Isak Dinesen's Seven
> Gothic Tales (The Deluge at Norderney) and Netochka Nezvanova, also
female,
> is a major character in a minor work by Dostoevsky. >>
>
> Netochka may not be a "major figure", but he is an interesting presence,
or
> semi-presence. I wrote a piece about him and his name in the Nabokovian
some
> time ago, but I can't remember the issue number, and have lost it under a
> heap of other publications.
>
> Charles Harrison Wallace