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	Francis Fletcher Vane -an unfinished biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His ancestor, Sir Henry Vane the younger, was the civilian leader of the Commonwealth bloc in Parliament during the English Civil War.
		Vane also objected to the growing number of militarists in positions of authority.
		In fact, no cause is worth fighting for unless there are some enthusiasts self-sacrificing enough not only to become martyrs for it in the ordinary sense but that more difficult kind of martyrdom which is represented by what their enemies would call making fools of themselves for it............
	www.wcml.org.uk /people/vane.htm (4105 words)

	Sisters In Crime
		Then join the GUPPIES, a special interest group of Sisters in Crime, comprised of writers dedicated to improving their craft and helping each other on the road to publication.
		The Upstate S.C. Chapter of Sisters in Crime meets the fourth Thursday of each month at The Open Book, 110 S Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville SC.
		Sisters in Crime, Heart of Texas Chapter, meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm at the Westlake Barnes & Noble bookstore, located at the southeast corner of Loop 360 and Bee Cave Rd, in The Village at Westlake shopping center in Austin, Texas.
	www.sistersincrime.org /chapters.html (2130 words)

	Miscellaneous Decatur County, Kansas Obituaries
		The Rev. James Hoover and Sister Marilyn Wall officiated and burial was in the Mount Calvary Cemetery, Leoville.
		The Rev. David Randall and Sister Marilyn Wall officiated and burial was in the Oberlin Cemetery.
		She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1978; a daughter, Newtalene Pavlicek on Jan. 1, 1998; a sister, Leola Strong in 1916; and a brother Elvin Strong.
	www.genealogybuff.com /ks/ks-decatur-obits1.htm (5467 words)

	The Vane Sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vane Sisters is the second to last short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March of 1951; it is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator.
		The very name of Sybil hints at the trick of the final paragraph, as the word acrostic was first applied to the prophecies of the Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word.
		The trick ending of "The Vane Sisters" originally went unnoticed when the New Yorker rejected the story, and it was only revealed when Nabokov wrote a letter to the chief editor, Katharine A. White, explaining the foundation of the story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Vane_Sisters (381 words)

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		And it structure and approach to leadership, it took it’s cues from Ella Baker, a lifelong activist and organizer.
		This is the land we cherish, a land of liberty.
		Sisters sit in dignity, brothers sit in pride.
	www.virginia.edu /uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/bond.html (4008 words)

	Twin Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Twin Sisters is a good family hike or training hike.
		There is an arrow-shaped weather vane, a radio shack and antenna tower, and a solar cell array to power it all, on U.S. Forest Service land.
		Twin Sisters is the highest point for miles in any direction, so it is a magnet for lightning.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /~novak/rmnp/reports/twins.html (507 words)

	Roland Vane - Sinful Sisters - First Edition Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The boy's waiting to see if there is an _,nswer." June Delaine bent over the bed and shook her elder sister, Lorna, into wakefulness, holding out the telegram -which had just been delivered.
		She tore it open viciously, and read the words within.
		Jims was looking down at her, slightly puzz-led at her sister's annoyance.
	www.classiccrimefiction.com /vane-sinfulsisters.htm (258 words)

	the signs and symbols in nabokov's 'signs and symbols'
		It is a story of the intervention by gentle spirits (or ghosts) into the reality of the narrator, "a callous observer of the superficial planes of life," crowned by the secret message in the finale that can be decoded by the rules of acrostic reading.
		Contrary to the prevailing line of criticism, I take Nabokov at his word and argue in this article that "Signs and Symbols," like "The Vane Sisters," is constructed according to a specific "system" of concealment and does contain a neat soluble riddle whose function is similar to the acrostic puzzle in the later story.
		That is exactly what Nabokov had in mind when he wrote to Katharine White that the reader of "The Vane Sisters" "almost automatically slips into" the discovery of an encrypted message from the other world if he pays attention to "various allusions to trick-reading" in the story.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/dolinin.htm (1134 words)

	Twins: Sister's Keeper - TV.com
		When Alan informs Lee, Mitchee and Farrah that his unexciting sister Judy is joining them for Thanksgiving dinner, the family is clearly less than thrilled.
		We learn that Alan is over-protective of his little sister and feels that he must protect her.
		Mitchee is alluding to a series of videos of young women who get party, get drunk and expose their breasts for the camera.
	www.tv.com /twins/sisters-keeper/episode/558942/summary.html (342 words)

	Stephanie Laurens - The Truth About Love Excerpt
		In reply to his knock, Bradshaw, Vane's butler, opened the door; beaming, he assured him that Vane and Patience were indeed in and presently to be found in the back parlor.
		Vane dropped a kiss on her soft curls and settled her, then looked at Gerrard.
		Vane and Patience had been the first he'd asked to sit for him; that painting hung above the drawing room fireplace in their house in Kent, safely private.
	www.stephanielaurens.com /Cynsters/12TruthAboutLove_Excerpt.htm (6078 words)

	Vladimir Nabokov. The Vane Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		She had wide-spaced eyes very much like her sister's, of a frank, frightened blue with dark points in a radial arrangement.
		She used cosmetics with as much zest as her little sister had, but with an additional slovenliness that would result in her big front teeth getting some of the rouge.
		She was handsomely dark, wore a not too tasteless mixture of fairly smart heterogeneous things, and had a so-called good figure; but all of her was curiously frowzy, after a way I obscurely associated with left-wing enthusiasms in politics and "advanced" banalities in art, although, actually, she cared for neither.
	lib.novgorod.net /NABOKOW/vs.txt (2838 words)

	Miscellaneous Sussex County, Delaware, Obituaries
		She is survived by three daughters, MaryLane T. Smith of Upper Darby, Pa., Patricia A. Clancy of Media, Pa. and Barbara E. Goschen of Oakdale, Calif.; a sister, Emma Bailey of Dover; a brother, William Viney II of Dover; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
		She is survived by her husband of 36 years, John Bunting; a brother, Merrill Jester; and a sister, Marian E. Paugh, both of Georgetown, and several nieces and nephews.
		She is survived by a son, Mitchell Robert Gannon and his wife, Louise of Long Neck; a stepdaughter, Ann L. Gannon of Long Neck; a sister, Catherine Freeman of Clarkville, Ind.; 10 grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and 20 great-great-grandchildren.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/de/de-sussex16.htm (4328 words)

	Acrostic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word acrostic was first applied to the prophecies of the Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word.
		This technique was later used to ingenious effect by Vladimir Nabokov in his story The Vane Sisters.
		Acrostics may simply spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; these acrostics occur in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and in certain of the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acrostic (370 words)

	Vane Women: Articulate Laureates
		She was brought up in Belfast during the Troubles, so Death regularly appears in various guises: sometimes as a potato, sometimes as a mound of saturated fat.
		Pru Kitching: born in Sunderland, schooled in North Yorkshire and County Durham; wrote a lot; trained in theatre in Manchester; wrote a lot; married a painter and was widowed; didn't write; ran away to Copenhagen; travelled a lot; came back to Weardale in the North Pennines; writes a lot again.
		She writes about oddball and outsider characters and, worryingly for her elder sibling, finds the difficult relationship between sisters is a recurrent theme in her work.
	www.vanewomen.co.uk /laureates.shtml (3109 words)

	Conversational Reading: Nabokov's The Vane Sisters
		Cynthia Vane was the sister of Sybil Vane, a former student of the professor's whom D. had an affair with (while she was a student).
		The last lines of "The Vane Sisters" throw into question the authorship of the story (as in Pale Fire) and also reinforce the fact that this is a text that creates an imaginary world.
		Being as precise a writer as he was, though, Nabokov did not employ these words for show, or for their own sake, but because he believed them to be necessary--the only word that could do the job.
	www.conversationalreading.com /2004/11/nabokovs_the_va.html (1173 words)

	Conversational Reading: Nabokov's The Vane Sisters
		Cynthia Vane was the sister of Sybil Vane, a former student of the professor's whom D. had an affair with (while she was a student).
		The last lines of "The Vane Sisters" throw into question the authorship of the story (as in Pale Fire) and also reinforce the fact that this is a text that creates an imaginary world.
		Being as precise a writer as he was, though, Nabokov did not employ these words for show, or for their own sake, but because he believed them to be necessary--the only word that could do the job.
	esposito.typepad.com /con_read/2004/11/nabokovs_the_va.html (1083 words)

	Parks - Find your Favourite Park
		It was Norman’s work, greatly assisted by his brothers and sisters, which put Aweme on the map as a centre for scientific research on the prairies.
		Edwy Vane was the eldest son, but Percy always called him The Boy.
		Today members of the Criddle and Vane families are still living in the area, as well as across Canada.
	www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/parks/popular_parks/criddle_vane/info.html (2958 words)

	Nabokov Tutorials - 'Recruiting'
		A man with a newspaper comes to sit beside him on the bench and reveals that what we have so far learned so far is in fact his own speculation about Vasily, and that he might not even be Russian at all.
		This suddenly-appearing narrator tells us that Vasily's sister has been assembled out of the details of someone else, and that both these sketches have been created to fill spaces in a novel on which he has been working.
		The narrator then indulges in one of those speculations regarding the relationship between one level of fictionality and another which can make readers feel that they are being asked to turn their own minds inside-out:
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/nab-034.htm (762 words)

	The Library of Vane
		Ghaleon travels from Vane to Quark's cave only to find himself increasingly sickened by what is about to happen.
		Another life opens up to a proud student in Vane, leading him from his native city on a quest to discover what powers are behind his transformation and who they are.
		The head librarian of the Magic Guild of Vane discovers a forgotten tome in the rubble of Vane shortly after the city crashes to the ground after Ghaleon's attack.
	www.sabrecat.net /ghaleon/fanfic.html (2801 words)

	Love & Romance Audio Books
		With her parents gone, her twin sister, Kitty, about to be married, and no hint of Mr.
		Moving effortlessly across five decades, SAFFRON SKIES is a magnificent story of sisters, friends, families and love from Lesley Lokko, one of the most outstanding new voices in commercial fiction..
		Twenty-seven years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire.
	www.audiobookone.com /romance/love-and-romance-audio-books.html (4267 words)

	www.myspace.com/krummusic
		She couldn't think of anything stirring enough to write about and was beginning to dispair until she was caught by a sudden flash of inspiration.
		And with that Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons was born!
		Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons has 523 friends.
	www.myspace.com /krummusic (987 words)

	elimae
		At the end of Nabokov's story "The Vane Sisters," the first letters of the words in the final paragraph contains a message to the narrator.
		Cynthia and Sybil Vane speak beyond the grave to get the him to notice the icicles on the house.
		More than being an experimental story or novel, this type of story aspires to being a limited tour de force, that is, it might be more experimental than As I Lay Dying or Infinite Jest, but its aesthetic range and perhaps, even, our satisfaction with the work, may not be as great.
	www.elimae.com /essays/castle/restraints.html (1322 words)

	The Official Irkland Web Site - The Nabokov Assignment, Page 5
		is married, of course, married and carrying on an affair with Cybil Vane, the younger Vane, the girl who happens to be in the French Lit class of the narrator...
		Mag cut him off and said she was tired of hearing the story in his rotten version.
		A rosy globe, marbled with dusky blotches, it is one of the countless objects diligently revolving in the infinite and gratuitous awfulness of fluid space.
	www.irkland.com /writing/nabokov6.htm (6248 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Vintage Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
		In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy.
		Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from his memoir Speak, Memory.
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	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400034017 (221 words)

	Patricia Sloane on T.S. Eliot
		This is the concluding paragraph of Vladimir Nabokov's "Vane Sisters" The story begins with the narrator (a middle-aged professor of French) losing his way (Dante anyone?).
		He follows them until he no longer knows where he is. A former colleague drives by, the cause of Sybil Vane's suicide some years prior to the story's present time.
		It seems that Cynthia had a fascination for all things occult and was enamored of all theories strange.
	www.stevencscheer.com /patriciasloane.htm (2268 words)

	Vladimir
		Besides "Signs and Symbols," there are a few other stories in this long-overdue volume where it is worth bearing these words in mind.
		In "The Vane Sisters," an arrogant French teacher recalls a pair of dead siblings, and his fruitless search for their ghosts.
		What he doesn't know and what only readers alerted by Nabokov's prefatory note will likely find out is that the last paragraph of his story is an acrostic message from the two, who have gamely penetrated his narrative from the next world to let him know that they have guided his search from the beginning.
	www.scpronet.com /point/9602/s12.html (1330 words)

	This is an oft quoted passage by Nabokov on Mimicry
		In his fiction, Nabokov satirizes the tendency to see any purpose, divine or otherwise, as a cause of what is truly a mere coincidental resemblance (or an initially nonutilitarian resemblance formed by similar physical laws).
		In "The Vane Sisters," there is a man who pours through the pages of books in search of clever misprints such as when "Hither" is given as "Hitler" and coincidentally makes some new perverse sense.
		Nabokov claimed such typos illustrated "the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower" (622).
	www.dactyl.org /directors/vna/VNStalk.htm (4434 words)

	Popscratch
		Ron accidentally eats the chocolates in bed on the morning of his birthday and immediately begins groaning breathlessly over the eyes and hair of Romilda Vane.
		Yesterday I worked for nearly twelve hours — from a bit after eight until a bit before eight — and then came home and started packing.
		Today I started cleaning pretty much as soon as I got out of bed, and had errands done and the apartment neater than it’s been in weeks by the afternoon, when two of my sisters came over for a couple of hours, one all the way from PEI, just to chat.
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