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In a message dated 4/24/2009 11:53:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
MRoth@MESSIAH.EDU writes:
> n a footnote to our article for the new NOJ, Tiffany DeRewal and I
> included (with kind permission from Dmitri) a few uncanceled lines from the
> holograph ms. of Pale Fire. It's fun to imagine that these were John Shade's
> lines (rather than just VN's), in which case we might ask why he replaced
> them, or, since they are uncanceled in the manuscript, why Kinbote took them
> out. You would think he would have much to say about them! Anyway, here they
> are:
>
> Found that my bunch of essays The Untamed
> Seahorse was "universally acclaimed"
> (Indeed, it sold exceptionally well --
> mainly because I had seen fit to dwell
> In scolary [sic] detail on the delights
> Byron derived from little catamites).
>
> I'm excited to see the edition of PF Sam Gwynn mentioned. Even more fun
> might be a facsimile edition of the notecards on which VN actually wrote the
> poem. A comparison of the two might be revealing.
>
> Best,
> Matt Roth
>
A funny closing couplet but that opening enjambment isn't Shade's usual
thing (can't recall how mention of the book of essays goes in PF--dont' have a
copy with me), and the fifth line is pretty rough metrically, even for
Shade.
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MRoth@MESSIAH.EDU writes:
> n a footnote to our article for the new NOJ, Tiffany DeRewal and I
> included (with kind permission from Dmitri) a few uncanceled lines from the
> holograph ms. of Pale Fire. It's fun to imagine that these were John Shade's
> lines (rather than just VN's), in which case we might ask why he replaced
> them, or, since they are uncanceled in the manuscript, why Kinbote took them
> out. You would think he would have much to say about them! Anyway, here they
> are:
>
> Found that my bunch of essays The Untamed
> Seahorse was "universally acclaimed"
> (Indeed, it sold exceptionally well --
> mainly because I had seen fit to dwell
> In scolary [sic] detail on the delights
> Byron derived from little catamites).
>
> I'm excited to see the edition of PF Sam Gwynn mentioned. Even more fun
> might be a facsimile edition of the notecards on which VN actually wrote the
> poem. A comparison of the two might be revealing.
>
> Best,
> Matt Roth
>
A funny closing couplet but that opening enjambment isn't Shade's usual
thing (can't recall how mention of the book of essays goes in PF--dont' have a
copy with me), and the fifth line is pretty rough metrically, even for
Shade.
Is the article online?
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