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Query: other contemporary literary allusions in PF?
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Two (tiny) things come to mind: an indirect reference to Mark Van Doren
(1894-1972) and a direct one to Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)--both living
poets, though quite over the hill, at the time of Pale Fire's
publication.
p. 244: "those gentlemen who cheat on television quizzes" refers to Van
Doren's son Charles who was exposed as cheating on "Twenty-One" in the
late
50s.
275: "Asked about the Soviet exhibition at the New York Coliseum, Carl
Sandburg, a poet, replied, and I quote: 'They make their appeal on the
highest of intellectual levels.'"
Mike Donohue
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(1894-1972) and a direct one to Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)--both living
poets, though quite over the hill, at the time of Pale Fire's
publication.
p. 244: "those gentlemen who cheat on television quizzes" refers to Van
Doren's son Charles who was exposed as cheating on "Twenty-One" in the
late
50s.
275: "Asked about the Soviet exhibition at the New York Coliseum, Carl
Sandburg, a poet, replied, and I quote: 'They make their appeal on the
highest of intellectual levels.'"
Mike Donohue
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