Juan 's scrabble tiles let him down. There are several rather
improbable names that can be mustered from these letters.
The two ffs
and the o are the give-away and the problem is solved by using a title, Dr or
Mr. Thus Fulmerford is an anagram of either Dr Lemuroff (or Muleroff or
Rulemoff) or Mr Leduroff (or Duleroff or Elduroff), all seeminly nonsensical
names.
However Lemuroff could be derived from the small mammal the
lemur. The interesting thing about that is that from lemur was derived an
Atlantis counterpart in the Pacific Ocean called Lemuria. The original idea of
Lemuria was posited by a supporter of Darwin's theories (the German Ernst
Heinrich Haeckel) and was later appropriated by the Theosophists. Madame
Blavatsky had some very strange ideas about Lemurians that might have appealed
to Nabokov. There may be a link to those lemans in Ada, but I don't
know.