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Subject: the key to pale fire
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> it's fairly commonly said that PALE FIRE consists of
> four parts: the introduction, the poem, the commentary
> and the index
>
> what I'd like to suggest is that there's a fifth element,
> generally unnoticed,
> which might seem to be THE key to the book
> (given its 'privileged' position),
> if we only knew what to make of it: the epigraph
> at the very beginning, quoting BOSWELL on Johnson and his
> cat Hodge, who would 'not be shot'
>
> any theory of the book must explain who is writing this
> epigraph: Shade, Kinbote, Nabokov?
>
> and what on earth does it mean in the context of PALE FIRE?
>
> apart from the obvious fact that PF concerns someone who
> IS shot (or is he?), does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>
From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Subject: the key to pale fire
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> it's fairly commonly said that PALE FIRE consists of
> four parts: the introduction, the poem, the commentary
> and the index
>
> what I'd like to suggest is that there's a fifth element,
> generally unnoticed,
> which might seem to be THE key to the book
> (given its 'privileged' position),
> if we only knew what to make of it: the epigraph
> at the very beginning, quoting BOSWELL on Johnson and his
> cat Hodge, who would 'not be shot'
>
> any theory of the book must explain who is writing this
> epigraph: Shade, Kinbote, Nabokov?
>
> and what on earth does it mean in the context of PALE FIRE?
>
> apart from the obvious fact that PF concerns someone who
> IS shot (or is he?), does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>