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Dates: during 1971-1971
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What is curious, though, is that this bit of verse is a translation from the Russian, and the Russian poet-Nabokov himself-did not use an obscure Russian equivalent of caprifole. He used a perfectly ordinary word, zheemolost, which means honeysuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drinker of Words | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

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