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From: Vladimir Alexandrov <vladimir@pantheon.yale.edu>
Nabokovian wonders never cease. I ... recall with pleasure that "gift"
of a "coincidence" in Cambridge last summer when I was leaving the Trinity
College courtyard after our tour and overheard a mother explaining to her
little boy in a stroller (a reincarnation perhaps?) about the
structure in the middle of the courtyard: "No, no, dear. Not 'mountain,'
but 'fountain'!"
Maybe it's worth compiling a list of such N-ian anecdotes.
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EDITOR's NOTE.
Vladimir Alexandrov is the author, inter alia, of _Nabokov's
Otherworld_and editor of the _Garland Guide to Nabokov._
Nabokovian wonders never cease. I ... recall with pleasure that "gift"
of a "coincidence" in Cambridge last summer when I was leaving the Trinity
College courtyard after our tour and overheard a mother explaining to her
little boy in a stroller (a reincarnation perhaps?) about the
structure in the middle of the courtyard: "No, no, dear. Not 'mountain,'
but 'fountain'!"
Maybe it's worth compiling a list of such N-ian anecdotes.
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EDITOR's NOTE.
Vladimir Alexandrov is the author, inter alia, of _Nabokov's
Otherworld_and editor of the _Garland Guide to Nabokov._