for jerry - pale fire

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) for jerry - pale fire
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:56:18 -0700
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Hey Jerry - if you like Nabokov's Pale Fire, check out Boyd's "Pale Fire - =
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Magic of Artistic Discovery" - he says that both Shade and Kinbote are equa=
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inspired by the same source: the Vanessa butterfly that is actually Shade's=20
daughter, who sympathizes with Kinbote because of their mutual loneliness a=
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exclusion from society - it is cool because I like the idea of the two=20
obviously incompatible narratives being used by a supernatural being in ord=
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to produce a homage to her life - in other words, she directly inspires the=20
fantasies of Kinbote, which then actually did influence Shade in the=20
composition of the poem which was really about his daughter.  Pretty weird.=
  I=20
like it because it reminds me of my Horn in Babbie idea.=20
In any case, whether you buy the primary thesis or not, the book really,=20
really has a lot of good explanatory information that really makes sense of=20
the book.  Sorry if this doesn't make sense.  I got a bad concussion yester=
day=20
- everything is bright and blurry (I admit, I've been skimming the list for=20
the past two days, but I will go back and read everything thoroughly when I=20
feel smart again.)
Marc Aramini



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