Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013782, Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:18:49 -0500

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Two replies re: amusement park/ motor lodge and PF wiki
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Dear Sergei,

I share the view that the foreward and commentary are actual,
written documents, rather than something imaginary. Hope I
didn't imply otherwise. As for the amusement park, Kinbote
reveals later that it wasn't an amusement park after all,
but some loud campers near his motor lodge.

Matthew Roth

>> "... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
>> lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
>>
>> " ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
>> precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
>> carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye."
(p.25)
>>
>> What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sergei Soloviev

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NABOKV-L wrote:

> If anyone can offer up some webspace, I've set up password-protected
> wikis before in the past, so can have a crack at setting one up for
Pale
> Fire. It'll take a while to get it exactly how we want it, but it's
not
> that tricky.

Uhh: Tricky Wiki?

That would have possiblly worried Caesar.
> Nick Grundy

John A. Rea

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