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Re: Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
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From: STADLEN@aol.com
> Do Russians call some pawn or piece "the cock"?
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> If not, it's the picture.
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Even if the Russians did or do, what has playing chess got to do with a
response to a request for evidence of "specific traits of terrene habitation"
(The Vane Sisters)? But it doesn't have to be that picture. Nabokov just
needs to have known what Tolstoy's home was like.
Anthony Stadlen
> Do Russians call some pawn or piece "the cock"?
>
> If not, it's the picture.
>
>
Even if the Russians did or do, what has playing chess got to do with a
response to a request for evidence of "specific traits of terrene habitation"
(The Vane Sisters)? But it doesn't have to be that picture. Nabokov just
needs to have known what Tolstoy's home was like.
Anthony Stadlen