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From: nabokov
To: 'D. Barton Johnson'
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: Nekrasov

Dear Don,
 
Please post:
 
With regard to the Russian locution about Nekrasov cited by Alexander Dolinin, one might also note its echo in "An Evening of Russian Poetry":
 
 And then the sob, the syncope (Nekrasov!),
 the panting syllables that climb and climb,
 obsessively repetitive and rasping,
 dearer to some than any other rhyme.
 
DN
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EDNOTE. "NeKRASov" / "and RASPing" must be a unique rhyme in English.