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Pale Fire's "Royal Game of the Goose"
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Note to line 189 (which refers in turn to note to line 627): "This
reminds
one of the Royal Game of the Goose, but played here with little
airplanes of
painted tin: a wild-goose game, rather (go to square 209)." The Royal
Game
of Goose is an old children's game. Kinbote is apparently likening his
penchant for cross-cross-referencing to the board game, described on p.
145
of "The Game of Goose," by Henry Carrington Bolton (Journal of American
Folklore vol. 8, no. 29, 1895).
Don Johnson
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reminds
one of the Royal Game of the Goose, but played here with little
airplanes of
painted tin: a wild-goose game, rather (go to square 209)." The Royal
Game
of Goose is an old children's game. Kinbote is apparently likening his
penchant for cross-cross-referencing to the board game, described on p.
145
of "The Game of Goose," by Henry Carrington Bolton (Journal of American
Folklore vol. 8, no. 29, 1895).
Don Johnson
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