Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006552, Thu, 16 May 2002 13:54:18 -0700

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Fw: Speak, Memory query (fwd)
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From: D. Barton Johnson <chtodel@gte.net>

> From: Sam Leininger <charleskinbote@mac.com>

Seeing as I don't even have Boyd's "Russian Years" on my bookshelf, I was
wondering if someone could unravel the significance of the following,
found
> in Ch 14 of 'Speak, Memory':
>
>
> "However, it is only now, many years later, that the information
concealed
> in my chess symbols, which that control permitted to pass, may be, and is
in
> fact, divulged."
>
> [re: a piece of paper encoded with, supposedly, the moves of a chess
problem
> stamped by the French authorities on VN's way to the US]
>
>
> thanks in advance,
> Sam
>