Adam Krosnick: Does anyone
know a good source for numerology in Nabokov?
Jansy Mello: In "Strong
Opinions" ( 1971, interview with Alden Whitman) we find Nabokov's own
admission and perspective related to coincidences and superstitions: "I am subject to the
embarrassing qualms of superstition: a
number, a dream, a coincidence can affect roe obsessively-- though not in the
sense of absurd fears but as fabulous (and on the
whole rather bracing) scientific enigmas incapable of being
stated, let alone solved."
I looked for a report
about Nabokov's sister Elena, in The
Nabokovian, because I thought she was interested in
numerology. My recollection proved to be wrong :she enjoyed scrabble and admired
Nabokov's "logomancy." G. Barabtarlo's "A view of a room" (The
Nabokovian, Fall 2000, number 45) is worth a read, though.
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