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----- Original Message -----
From: alex
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 5:05 PM
Subject: Fw: One Letter

 
I thought of the possibility that the disappearance of l from "world" might have something to do with the L disaster. But it is unclear how this l-dropping in "world" making out of it "word" could cause the notion of 'Terra' and the ban on electricity on Antiterra. True, "word" is slovo in Russian, and "Slovo" is the name of the magazine where both the electricity article and the Paul Alexis story ("La fin de Lucie Pelegrin") that I think is used by Lucette's spirit for sending Van a dream from Terra appeared. But, still, the connection, if it exists at all, seems too vague to me.
 
Alexey     
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Fw: One Letter

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Oleg Dorman
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:56 AM
Subject: One Letter

Reading the sparkling discussion on Terra and Logos (in fact, A. Sklyarenko brilliant argumentation) I want to make a tiny footnote:
Nabokov points that difference between cosmic and comic is one letter S. I'd add, that difference between Word and World is also in one letter.