Dear all,
Nobody seems to have noticed that Siri Bendtsen,
the name of the girl who asked the List about the reason of VN's dislike
of Dostoevsky, is a Nabokovian anagram. I wouldn't
have noticed it myself, if the inventor of this quite plausible
Scandinavian name (to whom I had written by chance) didn't invite me to
look closer at Siri. The anagram's solving was then the matter of a
second.
Happy New Year to everybody! (I notice that New
Year is an anagram of "near yew"; I suggest that yew should become the
Nabokovians' Christmas tree :)
Alexey Sklyarenko