Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009450, Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:49:00 -0800

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Fw: Fw: Circularity in the Notes to Pale Fire
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From: "Bruce Stone" <bstone41@hotmail.com>
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> This happens with the note to lines 47-48 and the note to line 62. Pages
87
> and 96 in the Vintage edition.
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> Bruce
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> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Circularity in the Notes to Pale Fire
> >Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:07:42 -0800
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> >From: CGuerin@aol.com
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:22 AM
> >Subject: Circularity in the Notes to Pale Fire
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> >Perhaps I hallucinated this: in my first reading of Pale Fire, some 25
> >years ago, I discovered a circularity in the notes to Pale Fire. Note X
> >said, see Note Y, and Note Y said see Note X. A joke that made me laugh
> >out loud. Rereading the book last fall, I --------couldn't find it..
Did
> >I miss it or misremember it?
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> >EDRESPONSE. You are probably thinking of the Index rather than Kinbote's
> >annotations. I have devoted a chapter in my WORLDS IN REGRESSION such
> >matters and I'. sure Brian Boyd covers the matter in his recent book on
PF.
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