In the beginning...

[Svetlana Grenier]

It makes absolutely no sense in its context: Eugene is driving to his 
dying uncle "Приготовляясь, денег ради, //На вздохи, скуку и обман" (I, 
LII) but finds his uncle already dead.
Svetlana Grenier

Genevra Gerhart wrote:

>Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
>A dinner guest the other night assured me that "On uvazhat' sebya zastavil"
>meant, in the time of Pushkin, "He kicked the bucket" that is, he died. He
>even found an online source that said as much, except that the only proof
>offered was "Lyuboe izdaniye Evgeniya Onegina s kommentariyami".
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>I hurried to my Nabokov commentaries and found no such suggestion either in
>the translation in the overflowing notes.
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>Can we give credence to such an assertion? Did Uncle die?  
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>Genevra Gerhart
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>ggerhart at comcast.net
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>www.genevragerhart.com
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>www.russiancommonknowledge.com
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