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Matt,
>MR: "The Vseslav Epos" was published in 1949. Perhaps Prof. Pnin
(Szeftel) >gave John
>Shade a copy!
but then Shade should give it all the meaning Russians and Russian
emigres
(as Nabokov, or maybe Botkin) may attribute to it - hardly imaginable
again
for anybody who knows academic life ( I do) concerning a reprint given
by a colleague concerning an epos of a barbaric people (as Russia looks
to most of you the Americans). Even if Shade had some Russian
ancestors. Would I go crazy after reading an
acadmic paper about Beowulf?
Best,
Sergei Soloviev