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----- Original Message ---
From: "Mac Reynolds" <reynoldsm001@hawaii.rr.com>
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> I just read Walter Miale's post on The Gift and it triggered this
> question from me on Pnin in Pale Fire. Why is one of the most lovable
> characters in VN's fiction described as a "martinet" in Pale Fire? Is
> it because of mad Kinbote, a most unreliable narrator? When his little
> blue sedan spurted around the beer truck and up the shining highway at
> the end of Pnin, I think that most readers would only wish him the
> best. But to end up a martinet? It seems most unfair and not in
> keeping with how he was in the novel Pnin.
>
> Mac Reynolds
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EDNOTE. I, like you, am inclined to take it as a sign of Kinbote/ Botkin's
lunacy, but perhaps
others can offer different explanations
----- Original Message ---
From: "Mac Reynolds" <reynoldsm001@hawaii.rr.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
lines) ------------------
> I just read Walter Miale's post on The Gift and it triggered this
> question from me on Pnin in Pale Fire. Why is one of the most lovable
> characters in VN's fiction described as a "martinet" in Pale Fire? Is
> it because of mad Kinbote, a most unreliable narrator? When his little
> blue sedan spurted around the beer truck and up the shining highway at
> the end of Pnin, I think that most readers would only wish him the
> best. But to end up a martinet? It seems most unfair and not in
> keeping with how he was in the novel Pnin.
>
> Mac Reynolds
>----------------------------
EDNOTE. I, like you, am inclined to take it as a sign of Kinbote/ Botkin's
lunacy, but perhaps
others can offer different explanations