# for jerry - pale fire *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### maa32 *28 Apr 2002, 06:56* Hey Jerry - if you like Nabokov's Pale Fire, check out Boyd's "Pale Fire - The Magic of Artistic Discovery" - he says that both Shade and Kinbote are equally inspired by the same source: the Vanessa butterfly that is actually Shade's daughter, who sympathizes with Kinbote because of their mutual loneliness and exclusion from society - it is cool because I like the idea of the two obviously incompatible narratives being used by a supernatural being in order to produce a homage to her life - in other words, she directly inspires the fantasies of Kinbote, which then actually did influence Shade in the composition of the poem which was really about his daughter. Pretty weird. I like it because it reminds me of my Horn in Babbie idea. In any case, whether you buy the primary thesis or not, the book really, really has a lot of good explanatory information that really makes sense of the book. Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I got a bad concussion yesterday - everything is bright and blurry (I admit, I've been skimming the list for the past two days, but I will go back and read everything thoroughly when I feel smart again.) Marc Aramini --- ### Jerry Friedman *29 Apr 2002, 20:32 · follows maa32* > --- maa32 wrote: > Hey Jerry - if you like Nabokov's Pale Fire, check out Boyd's "Pale Fire > - The > Magic of Artistic Discovery" ... One of these days... > I got a bad concussion yesterday > - everything is bright and blurry (I admit, I've been skimming the list > for > the past two days, but I will go back and read everything thoroughly > when I > feel smart again.) Sorry to hear that! Is your doctor as good as Dr. Makee? Anyway, I hope you recover well and quickly! Jerry Friedman ---