Oak stories? Pnin? Belochkin/Belkina -- Squirrel Nutkin? Eichkatsel!! Auf Deutsch squirrels are called little oak tree cats. Cute (mignon), huh? In Russian (belkin) they are apparently white things.

Carolyn
 
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JM: While I was going through "oak" stories in ADA (scenery of one of the Leitmotifs in the novel, according to Darkbloom), I was again reminded of a possible link to Goethe's Mignon ...
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