Fishing

Cometman cometman_98 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 7 20:35:37 CST 2005


Glenn Scheper wrote:
>There were about 2200 unique words in Wingstroke,
>and 12 times as many in GR. I took all >= 4 chars
>with >= 3 times; and list the 305 words in common
>here, sorted by frequency in ws, then in gr:

> 3   3 depths
> 3   3 glide
> 3   3 pajamas
> 3   3 sweaters
> 3   3 unbearable...

wonder if they'd follow a Poisson...

Much more familiar with Nabokov's longer works (Ada, Lolita, etc) --
haven't finished Wingstroke yet, much less become familiar with it, but

it certainly has fantastical elements in it.  Much more so than the
novels; their fantastic elements are more smoothly inserted




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