The first thing that comes to mind is the following:
 
"Paronomasia is a kind of verbal plague, a contagious sickness in the world of words." (Bend Sinister, Introduction, p. ix, McGraw-Hill, 1973)
 
A. Bouazza.
 
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Subject: urgent question
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:46:04 -0800
From: [Marin Turk] <marintorque@GMAIL.COM>
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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows where Nabokov said ( or wrote) that making 
word puns was a form of escapism. I know I read it somewhere, but can't 
recall where. This has been bugging me for weeks!
Thank you all
Marin

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