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Stan,
No, I don't know the Dudley theorem, but I have read (perhaps, not to the end) "War and Piece". One of its main characters, Pierre Bezukhov, attempts to to prove mathematically, so to speak, that he is bound to kill Napoleon (the Antichrist whose symbolic number is 666). If I remember correctly, he wants the numerical sum of alpabet letters (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc.) forming his name to equal 666. I believe he has to add the meaningless "l'prince" before his name spelled after a French fashion (Pierre Besuhoff) to get the desired total.
I find all further discussion of my theory too time-consuming and "counterproductive" and would like to stop participating in it. I shall only say that there is more logic and less arbitrariness in my anagrams than you want to see in them. This logic will be quite transparent to the reader of my entire piece.
Also, if Nabokov had written ADA in Russian, he might have chosen Ada, ili Sharada ("Ada, or the Charade") for a title.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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No, I don't know the Dudley theorem, but I have read (perhaps, not to the end) "War and Piece". One of its main characters, Pierre Bezukhov, attempts to to prove mathematically, so to speak, that he is bound to kill Napoleon (the Antichrist whose symbolic number is 666). If I remember correctly, he wants the numerical sum of alpabet letters (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc.) forming his name to equal 666. I believe he has to add the meaningless "l'prince" before his name spelled after a French fashion (Pierre Besuhoff) to get the desired total.
I find all further discussion of my theory too time-consuming and "counterproductive" and would like to stop participating in it. I shall only say that there is more logic and less arbitrariness in my anagrams than you want to see in them. This logic will be quite transparent to the reader of my entire piece.
Also, if Nabokov had written ADA in Russian, he might have chosen Ada, ili Sharada ("Ada, or the Charade") for a title.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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