Besides James Twiggs I'd really like to apologize to Piers Smith. His comments, which prompted my sermonette in defense of large grain literary analyses with respect to Pale Fire, were obviously occasioned by my unfortunate misuse of the word codology, which apparently means a great jesting or deception. I'd like to apologize to the whole list for that. My intended meaning was to describe a reading that seeks to clarify or comprehend most of the main issues, problems, ambiguities, residing in Pale Fire, such as Hodge's epigram, Botkin's role, the Rose Court, the overall relation of New Wye to Kinbote's Zembla. The work is a piece of fiction. In fact it's a fiction about a man writing a set of fictitious notes. As such, I suppose, the whole work may be considered a codology; almost trivially, and yet a pleasant trope perhaps. But my intention was to acclaim a fairly comprehensive reading of the whole codology.

your humble cod,
–GSL
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