Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019392, Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:05:08 +0300

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anagram with golova/Golovin
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I may err, but it seems to me that this anagram was devised by VN, not me:

GOLOVA + IN VINO VERITAS + BARN = IVAN GOLOVIN + SATIRA + BREVNO

golova is Russian for "head;" In vino veritas, "in wine is truth," is a Latin proverb; satira is Russian for "satire;" brevno is Russian for "log"
Brevno does become a god in Vladimir Solovyov's fable "Эфиопы и бревно" ("The Ethiopians and a Log," 1894).

Alexey Sklyarenko

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