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Re: Nabokov on pronunciation of his name (from the Archives)
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On 4/6/06 23:32, "Nicholas Grundy" <grundyn@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> My favourite post on this subject was the one which provided the double dactyl
> which features in the Guardian article here:
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/fentonserial/story/0,,804704,00.html
> --
>
> Higgledy piggledy
> Vladimir Nabokov -
> Wait! Hasn't somebody
> Made a mistake?
>
> Out of such errors, Vla-
> dimir Nabokov would
> Sesquipedelian
>
> Paragraphs make.
> --
> There was mention of a video of VN in Switzerland repeating his name in the
> various different pronunciations over and over as the credits rolled, too, but
> I'm afraid I can't dig it up.
>
> Nick
>
>
> Thanks for all the help on VN¹s reactions to his name-sounds.
> Sesquipedelian is usually Sesquipedalian but I could be missing a
> Nabokovesque-Kinbotean-Fentonic plot?
>
> The June 3 TIMEs LitQuiz on PROSODY asked ³What¹s an ASCLEPIAD, pray?²
> offering the choices 1. A deliberate hiatus 2. A short drinking poem 3. A
> meter
>
> This list will know of Asclepiad, the plant family, and that Monarch
> Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) feed on the Butterfly Weed (Asclepias
> tuberosa), but some may not be aware of the meter invented by Asclepiades
> of Samos and used by Auden:
> ³One spondee, two or three choriambs and one iamb.²
> Whence the quip about the trochee: ³Did He who made the iamb make thee?²
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
>
>
>
>
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> My favourite post on this subject was the one which provided the double dactyl
> which features in the Guardian article here:
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/fentonserial/story/0,,804704,00.html
> --
>
> Higgledy piggledy
> Vladimir Nabokov -
> Wait! Hasn't somebody
> Made a mistake?
>
> Out of such errors, Vla-
> dimir Nabokov would
> Sesquipedelian
>
> Paragraphs make.
> --
> There was mention of a video of VN in Switzerland repeating his name in the
> various different pronunciations over and over as the credits rolled, too, but
> I'm afraid I can't dig it up.
>
> Nick
>
>
> Thanks for all the help on VN¹s reactions to his name-sounds.
> Sesquipedelian is usually Sesquipedalian but I could be missing a
> Nabokovesque-Kinbotean-Fentonic plot?
>
> The June 3 TIMEs LitQuiz on PROSODY asked ³What¹s an ASCLEPIAD, pray?²
> offering the choices 1. A deliberate hiatus 2. A short drinking poem 3. A
> meter
>
> This list will know of Asclepiad, the plant family, and that Monarch
> Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) feed on the Butterfly Weed (Asclepias
> tuberosa), but some may not be aware of the meter invented by Asclepiades
> of Samos and used by Auden:
> ³One spondee, two or three choriambs and one iamb.²
> Whence the quip about the trochee: ³Did He who made the iamb make thee?²
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
>
>
>
>
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