Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019577, Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:10:44 +0300

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Perhaps, I should have started with this simple example:

TRI + ANTON = TRIANON + T = TRITON + ANTON - TON = RITA + NON + T = ARTIST + NON - S

tri = 3; cf. Chekhov's "Tri sestry" (The Three Sisters, known on Antiterra as The Four Sisters)

Anton - male given name; cf. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Trianon - the group of buildings in Versailles; cf. Pushkin: "Do you remember Trianon and gay pastimes?" (from "To a Grandee", 1830)

Triton - son of Poseidon and Amphitrite; marine gastropod of the family Cymatiidae; in The Bronze Horseman (known on Antiterra as The Headless Horseman: 1.28), Pushkin famously compares the flooded St. Petersburg to a triton: i vsplyl Petropol' kak triton

ton - French for "your" and "manner"

Rita - female given name; a Karaite girl, Van's partner in his Mascodagama dance; a character in Chekhov's story Volodya bol'shoi i Volodya malen'kiy ("The Two Volodyas," 1893), a spinster who knows a lot of obscene stories and tells them tastelessly

non - French for "no"

Alexey Sklyarenko

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