EDNOTE. It is of course. Multiple allusions are quintessential VN.

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Subject: Fw: Duel in the Sun
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:44:56 -0500
From: "JR" <bixx@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: bixx@mindspring.com
To: "Nabokv-L" <Nabokv-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>


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I always thought Slaughter in the Sun was a play on Laughter in the Dark.


--- Joshua Roberts
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> [Original Message]
> From: D. Barton Johnson 
> To: 
 > Date: 10/30/2002 3:05:21 PM
> Subject: Fw: Duel in the Sun
>
> AND THE WINNER IS "Mikhail Avrekh" 
>
>
>
> > "Slaughter in the Sun", one of the movels by Vadim Vadimovich in LATH.
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Your trivia question for the day. I see that the 1946 film "Duel in
the
> Sun" is on TCM tonight at 8pm. In what novel and where is it alluded to in
> VN's ouvre?