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Amazon has put up a a picture of the Gingko Press edition of 'Pale Fire (an
information received from James Bonney)
Sandy Klein sent
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00%3A00%3A00'%7D / Extracts: critics who give their lives meaning by
deconstructing works of art that don't need their help, academic sorts who
get so caught up in out-clevering and out-egoing each other that they
obscure brilliant, vibrant literature in layer upon layer of self-important
nattering I think Nabokov's Pale Fire is a work of utter brilliance--it sits
upon my "bookshelf of genius" beside Joyce and Melville, forming a sort of
holy triniity. [. . .]*
JM: In the above mentioned Holy Trinity I suppose Pale Fire will stand for
the holy ghost following some kinbotean theological arrangement? I forgot
to mention still another different meaning related to the word Index (I
was studying the catholic inquisition with a grandson) Index as the name
for the book in which all the herectic and condemned books were listed, most
of them later burned in an auto de fé, like some of Shades rejected
lines.
Lolita, of course, was saved. And Shades pale-fire incinerations were
limited and his own Pale Fire lives on to adorn many a sophisticated
book-shelf.
..
*- EDNote: I do not know who these out-clevering, out-egoing people can
possibly be. ~SB
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information received from James Bonney)
Sandy Klein sent
<http://www.valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?uid=15&d=%7Bts%20%272010-08-03
%2000%3A00%3A00%27%7D>
http://www.valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?uid=15&d=%7Bts%20'2010-08-03%20
00%3A00%3A00'%7D / Extracts: critics who give their lives meaning by
deconstructing works of art that don't need their help, academic sorts who
get so caught up in out-clevering and out-egoing each other that they
obscure brilliant, vibrant literature in layer upon layer of self-important
nattering I think Nabokov's Pale Fire is a work of utter brilliance--it sits
upon my "bookshelf of genius" beside Joyce and Melville, forming a sort of
holy triniity. [. . .]*
JM: In the above mentioned Holy Trinity I suppose Pale Fire will stand for
the holy ghost following some kinbotean theological arrangement? I forgot
to mention still another different meaning related to the word Index (I
was studying the catholic inquisition with a grandson) Index as the name
for the book in which all the herectic and condemned books were listed, most
of them later burned in an auto de fé, like some of Shades rejected
lines.
Lolita, of course, was saved. And Shades pale-fire incinerations were
limited and his own Pale Fire lives on to adorn many a sophisticated
book-shelf.
..
*- EDNote: I do not know who these out-clevering, out-egoing people can
possibly be. ~SB
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
