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From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: Fulmerford unscrabbled
Juan 's scrabble tiles let him down. There are several rather improbable names that can be mustered from these letters.
The two ffs and the o are the give-away and the problem is solved by using a title, Dr or Mr. Thus Fulmerford is an anagram of either Dr Lemuroff (or Muleroff or Rulemoff) or Mr Leduroff (or Duleroff or Elduroff), all seeminly nonsensical names.
However Lemuroff could be derived from the small mammal the lemur. The interesting thing about that is that from lemur was derived an Atlantis counterpart in the Pacific Ocean called Lemuria. The original idea of Lemuria was posited by a supporter of Darwin's theories (the German Ernst Heinrich Haeckel) and was later appropriated by the Theosophists. Madame Blavatsky had some very strange ideas about Lemurians that might have appealed to Nabokov. There may be a link to those lemans in Ada, but I don't know.
Carolyn Kunin
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: Fulmerford unscrabbled
Juan 's scrabble tiles let him down. There are several rather improbable names that can be mustered from these letters.
The two ffs and the o are the give-away and the problem is solved by using a title, Dr or Mr. Thus Fulmerford is an anagram of either Dr Lemuroff (or Muleroff or Rulemoff) or Mr Leduroff (or Duleroff or Elduroff), all seeminly nonsensical names.
However Lemuroff could be derived from the small mammal the lemur. The interesting thing about that is that from lemur was derived an Atlantis counterpart in the Pacific Ocean called Lemuria. The original idea of Lemuria was posited by a supporter of Darwin's theories (the German Ernst Heinrich Haeckel) and was later appropriated by the Theosophists. Madame Blavatsky had some very strange ideas about Lemurians that might have appealed to Nabokov. There may be a link to those lemans in Ada, but I don't know.
Carolyn Kunin