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Wait a second. What the fuck? |
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:"In the index to Pale Fire, Nabokov provides the following example of scoring lass-male in four: lass, mass, Mars, male." |
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Unless I'm completely wacked out of my mind, Mars => male does ''not'' constitute a legal move in Word golf, as it requires two letter substitions. Such a sequence would have to be: lass => mass => Mars => mare => male. I'm removing this line from the article, so that the last paragraph reads as follows, |
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:"The game was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov, and is referred to in his hypertext masterpiece Pale Fire (1962) as a favorite pass-time of the fictitious American poet John Shade. Shade's neighbour Charles Kinbote notes that some of his own records include "hate-love in three, lass-male in four, and live-dead in five (with 'lend' in the middle)."" |
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...unless I'm ''really'' out of it. If I am, someone please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page and revert this. [[User:jasonglchu|jglc]] | [[User talk:Jasonglchu|t]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jasonglchu|c]] 18:48, 12 August 2005 (UTC) |
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