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> If the world of Pale Fire contains the
> states of Appalachia and Utana, the towns of New Wye and Cedarn, why not
> Zembla and Onhava?
To me this looks as a plausible hypothesis. Kinbote is often very ironic (even
sarcastic) when he speaks about american realities, and these names have
such flavor (the fun is that the parts of reality are interchangeable)
>Unless we believe that Kinbote/Botkin invented these
> American place-names too, but surely that's going too far.
I don't think this is going too far.
>He would have
> had to change Shade's poem as well -- see lines 508-09, for instance.
Now this is interesting conjecture. Maybe?
Best regards,
Sergei Soloviev
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> states of Appalachia and Utana, the towns of New Wye and Cedarn, why not
> Zembla and Onhava?
To me this looks as a plausible hypothesis. Kinbote is often very ironic (even
sarcastic) when he speaks about american realities, and these names have
such flavor (the fun is that the parts of reality are interchangeable)
>Unless we believe that Kinbote/Botkin invented these
> American place-names too, but surely that's going too far.
I don't think this is going too far.
>He would have
> had to change Shade's poem as well -- see lines 508-09, for instance.
Now this is interesting conjecture. Maybe?
Best regards,
Sergei Soloviev
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