Amazon has put up a a picture of the Gingko Press edition of 'Pale Fire (an information received from James Bonney)

Sandy Klein sent  http://www.valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?uid=15&d=%7Bts%20'2010-08-03%2000%3A00%3A00'%7D /  Extracts: “critics…who give their lives meaning by deconstructing works of art that don't need their help, academic sorts who get so caught up in out-clevering and out-egoing each other that they obscure brilliant, vibrant literature in layer upon layer of self-important nattering…I think Nabokov's Pale Fire is a work of utter brilliance--it sits upon my "bookshelf of genius" beside Joyce and Melville, forming a sort of holy triniity.  [. . .]* “

JM: In the above mentioned “Holy Trinity” I suppose Pale Fire will stand for the holy ghost following some kinbotean theological arrangement?  I forgot to mention still another different meaning related to the word “Index” (I was studying the catholic inquisition with a grandson) “Index” as the name for the book in which all the herectic and condemned books were listed, most of them later burned in an “auto de fé,” like some of Shade’s rejected lines.
Lolita, of course, was saved. And Shade’s pale-fire incinerations were limited and his own Pale Fire lives on to adorn many a sophisticated book-shelf.   

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*- EDNote: I do not know who these out-clevering, out-egoing people can possibly be. ~SB

 

 

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