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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 pastime 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)." EXAMPLES In the index to '' Pale Fire '', Nabokov provides the following example for scoring LASS to MALE in four: To transform RIGHT into WRONG, the following sequence of steps may be taken: In this case, the player's score would be twelve. SEE ALSO |
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