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| | Annotations to Ada, Part One, Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | 507), where Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the inventor of the telephone, experimented also with hydrofoils and photophones, a fact that in view of Ada's dorophones (hydrophones), "jikkers" (magic carpets), and "prismatic pulsations," Nabokov appears to have known. |
 | | Demon, theatrical and operatic himself, first appears on Ada’s stage, as it were, in the torrid theater scene of I.2, during a stylized version of the travestied operatic version by another Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovsky, of another long Russian poem, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. |
 | | The last Temnosiny, Alexander Alexandrovich, died in 1824 century (Alexey Sklyarenko, Nabokv-L, 9 Nov 2002). |
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