On Mar 14, 2009, at 9:41 AM, jansymello wrote: Why do we need to come up with an end when literary after-life can be such fun?
Dear Jansy,
Good question. Of course if playing with your Pale Fire is what you enjoy, you can certainly do it endlessly. As someone once wrote, "for those who like to do that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like." But since I came to the conclusion that PF is a riddle, a puzzle and a chess-like problem, I found it, personally, terribly frustrating not to know the solution.
I am not much looking forward to an after-life either, but I am hoping against hope to go out in one final blaze of glory.
Carolyn