Alexey Sklyarenko:[to SKB:
lammer = I need help here! So many possible allusions?] Cf. :
"Vivian Darkbloom ('Notes to Ada'): lammer: amber (Fr: l'ambre),
allusion to electricity."
Jansy Mello:
"lammer" in ADA is also related to Sir Walter Scott's novel and to the
Donizetti opera it inspired: " Lucia de Lammermoor."
Perhaps SKB was
referring to modern terminologies and slangs related to computer technologies
and practives ( the lammers and the hackers?)
Amber is a recurrent term (such as the
thrifty ant emprisoned or embalmed in it, in PF. In "Bend Sinister"
there is a connection bt. Ember and amber*), as are VN's variations
on "water language", aquatic experiences and electricity - all of them
generating a wide range of insufficiently explored allusions, or so it seems to
me...
A.S's information about the relation bt.
"ambar and the Russian for barn" is fascinating**.
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*- "He found his spare glasses and then
the familiar number with the six in the middle resembling Ember's Persian nose,
and Ember put down his pen, removed the long amber cigarette-holder from
his thickly pursed lips and
listened."
** - I wonder if ember/ambar/barn
has any significative association to the "burning barn" in
ADA