"Аз, буки, веди: Красный цветок зла в 'Аде'
Набокова" ("The Red Flower of Evil in Nabokov's Ada") is scheduled to
appear on December 7 in the online magazine Topos.
Re the "amalgram," no, "analgam," in my post
of a couple of days ago, here are two other interesting
possibilities:
alma mater + inn =
material + Mann = Mantel + Marina
(Mann means "man," Mantel, "topcoat," in
German)
Alexey Sklyarenko