On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 Frances Assa wrote: One last (?)comment on Kinbote associations:  VN scrambled his last name to produce his first pseudonym:  V. Cantaboff.  A great name, it brings to mind song and buffo joking.  Don't you think that the name bears much resemblance to Kinbote--again the letters are recycled, only an "i" is added, reemphasizing, perhaps, VN himself:  I, Cantaboff, Kinbote.  Fran Assa

Serves me right for not checking the archives first - Fran Assa solved the V Cantaboff as a simple anagram - a simpler solution, and therefore superior to mine:  I, V Nabacoff

Oh, well - it was a good try,
K Cuhih
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