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> Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 4 (5 Next))
> Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 5)
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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 4 (5 Next))
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> > Feb. 7? 8?
> > Kinbote sees the Shades having trouble getting out of their icy
> > driveway ("one of my first mornings there") (FW).
> >
> > Feb. 16
> > Kinbote meets Shade at lunch at the Faculty Club (FW).
> >
> > A few days later
> > Kinbote gives Shade a ride home (via Community Center), where Sybil
> > introduces herself. Kinbote has "a kind of a little seminar...
> > with two charming identical twins and another boy, another boy"
> > (Bad Bob?) (FW).
> >
> > Thereafter
> > Kinbote entertains himself by spying on the Shades (FW).
> >
> > Late Feb.?
> > Kinbote shows Shade some of Judge Goldsworth's notes, having saved
> > them at least two weeks (n. 47-48).
> >
> > March 14
> > Kinbote attends a dinner party at the Shades'. Sometime after this
> > and probably before May 23, Kinbote has the Shades over for dinner
> > along with the son of a padishah (n. 579).
> >
> > March 21? 22?
> > Shade, Kinbote, and Bob go to a "dreary get-together party" at
> > Prof. C.'s house. Bob takes a color snapshot of Kinbote and Shade.
> > Mrs. C. snickers as Kinbote helps Shade find his galoshes (FW).
> >
> > March 28?
> > While Shade takes a bath, Kinbote talks with him about a reference
> > Kinbote is to look up on his trip to Washington, but neither can
> > remember what it is (FW).
> >
> > March 28? 29?
> > Kinbote is in Washington. Bob uses this absence "by entertaining
> > a fiery-haired whore from Exton". This is a week after Prof. C.'s
> > party, and it seems reasonable to put Kinbote's trip on a weekend
> > (FW).
> >
> > March 30
> > Kinbote, back from Washington, evicts Bob (FW, n. 802). For the
> > next several nights "neither wine, nor music, nor prayer could
> > allay my fears." Possibly during this period, Kinbote sees the
> > Goldsworths' cat with a white bow around its neck and, believing
> > someone has broken in, calls the police (n. 62).
> >
> > April?
> > As leaves block Kinbote's view, he gets more bold and proficient
> > about spying on the Shades (n. 47-49).
> >
> > April 2
> > Kinbote writes to Disa about his night fears and living next to Shade.
> > The letter includes his alias and the address of Wordsmith University
> > (n. 768, I.).
> >
> > Early April?
> > "After a maddening and embarrassing experience at the college
> > indoor swimming pool", Kinbote meets a needy young black man who
> > starts gardening for him the next day (n. 998).
> >
> > "Soon after Easter" (which is March 29)
> > Kinbote's gardener moves in and his nocturnal fears stop (n. 62).
> >
> > April 6
> > Kinbote receives a letter from Disa containing Shade's "The Sacred
> > Tree" (n. 49). Is this too fast to be an answer to his letter?
> >
> > Still April
> > Kinbote has recently hired the gardener. The subject of
> > anti-Semitism comes up at the Faculty Club, after which Shade and
> > Kinbote discuss Prejudice and the term "colored" (n. 470).
> >
> > Late April to early May
> > Spring bird migration in Appalachia, presumably the peak of Kinbote's
> > bird identification with his gardener's help (n. 1-4).
> >
> > Spring
> > It's announced that Odon is in Paris, and the Extremist government
> > in Zembla conjectures that the ex-king has left the country. The
> > Shadows determine to hunt him down (n. 171). This is probably
> > late in spring, as it's "almost a year" after the king escaped
> > in August, and it shouldn't be too long before Gradus draws the
> > fatal card on July 2.
> >
> > May 23
> > Kinbote attends a second souper chez Shade. Sometime, probably
> > after this and before giving Shade the plan of the palace, he
> > has the Shades over for a second dinner, with his gardener as
> > the other guest. (n. 579).
> >
> > May or June
> > Kinbote and Shade look for Shade's grandfather's pamphlets in
> > Shade's basement, and Kinbote sees the clockwork toy, in the form
> > of a black man, that Shade was playing with when he had his first
> > fainting spell (n. 143). During an evening stroll, Kinbote tells
> > Shade the story of himself and Disa and encourages Shade to
> > include it in the poem (n. 433-434).
> >
> > End of May
> > Kinbote can "make out the outlines of some of my images in the shape
> > his genius might give them" (n. 42).
> >
> > June
> > Kinbote has at least nine sunset rambles with Shade (n. 238).
> > At some point he draws and gives to Shade a plan of the Onhava
> > Palace. He stays for lunch (n. 71).
> > Probably sometime after this, he has the Shades over for dinner
> > with the blonde in the black leotard as the other guest (n. 570).
> >
> > Mid June
> > Kinbote feels sure Shade will write a poem about Zembla and
> > increases his efforts to "saturate" Shade with Zemblan stories
> > (n. 42).
> >
> > June 23
> > Kinbote and Shade play "a game of chess, a draw" and then converse
> > on Kinbote's terrace about sin, God, and the afterlife (n. 549).
> >
> > Late June
> > According to Shade's obituary, this is when he writes "The Swing",
> > though Kinbote believes it dates to shortly after Hazel's death
> > (n. 61).
> >
> > July 2
> > At 12:05 AM Zemblan time, Gradus is chosen by a show of cards to
> > assassinate Kinbote (n. 171).
> > Shortly after midnight EDT, Shade starts "Pale Fire" (FW, n. 1-4).
> > Meanwhile Kinbote plays chess with an Iranian summer student
> > (n. 1-4).
> >
> > Early or mid July
> > Shade recites an obscure friend's poetry at a Summer School party
> > at the Hurleys', and Kinbote hears Shade and Mrs. H. discuss an
> > insane porter, or Kinbote himself (n. 629).
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 5)
>
> > July 3
> > Sybil tells Kinbote that Shade has begun a poem but will not discuss
> > it till he's done (n. 47-48). Kinbote notes in his diary "poem
> > begun!" (n. 42).
> >
> > July 4
> > Shade finishes Canto 1 (FW) including Card 9 (n. 109). In the
> > evening, Kinbote drives a young friend 200 miles to his home,
> > where Kinbote attends two all-night parties (n. 181).
> > Oswin Bretwit suffers a pain in his groin that keeps him awake this
> > night and the next two. (n. 286).
> >
> > July 5 Shade's sixty-first birthday. He starts Canto 2 (FW, l. 181,
> > n. 181) and reaches line 208. Kinbote breakfasts at the second
> > party and returns home. In the evening Shade gives his birthday
> > party, which the uninvited Kinbote watches. (n. 181).
> > At noon Zemblan time, Gradus leaves Onhava for Copenhagen,
> > synchronized with Shade's waking up. (n. 1-4, n.181).
> >
> > July 6
> > At 3 AM Shade returns to his desk and brings his poem up to line 230.
> > At sunrise (4:30), Kinbote infers that the Shades are making love.
> > In the morning, Kinbote delivers to Sybil his present for John and
> > the third volume of _A la recherche des temps perdus_ (n. 181).
> > Later, Shade writes at least the next card (n. 231). In the
> > evening, Shade and Kinbote go on a ramble, with Sybil accompanying
> > them part of the way, and Shade refuses to discuss his progress on
> > his poem (n. 238, n. 802). As Shade reaches line 230, Gradus and
> > the Zemblan consul in Copenhagen buy clothes for Gradus to wear in
> > later notes (shortly before noon Copenhagen time) (l. 181).
> >
> > July 7
> > Shade's writings include lines 286-299 (n. 286, n. 287). Kinbote,
> > on his way to Dr. Ahlert's office for a 3:30 appointment, runs into
> > the Shades and learns from them and Dr. Ahlert that they're
> > planning to rent the Hurleys' ranch in Cedarn in August. Kinbote
> > gets information from a travel agency and mails a booking for a
> > nearby cabin (perhaps the same day) (n. 287).
> > Gradus flies to Paris, telephones Oswin Bretwit from the airport,
> > and has a futile interview with him. (n. 286).
> >
> > July 8
> > Oswin Bretwit dies during surgery (n. 286, I.).
> >
> > July 10
> > Shade's writing includes lines 406-416 and another card (n. 403-404).
> > Gradus drives from Geneva to Lex, where Odon is resting at Joe
> > Lavender's villa. Gradus is shown around by Gordon Krummholz, who
> > mentions that the King had gone to the CТte d'Azur, but Lavender
> > sends Gradus away by phone (n. 403-404). Back in Geneva, Gradus
> > has an incoherent phone conversation with Headquarters, who think
> > he's suggested breaking into the Villa Disa to look for letters
> > with the ex-king's address (n. 470).
> >
> > July 11 Shade finishes Canto 2 (FW).
> > Kinbote prowls around the Shades' house, sees them crying, and
> > bangs a garbage can but (believes he) isn't discovered (n. 47-49).
> > Gradus visits a Finnish bathhouse and sees his bare feet for the
> > last time until July 21 (n. 949).
> >
> > Mid July
> > Kinbote sees his plan of the Onhava Palace in a storage niche
> > in the Shades' house (n. 71). (This could be at his intrusion of
> > July 15.)
> >
> > July 14
> > Shade's writings include line 596 (n. 596).
> > Around this day ("a week before Shade's death") a clubwoman tells
> > Kinbote in a grocery store that he is remarkably disagreeable and
> > insane (FW).
> > Gradus, having fretted in his hotel in Geneva for four days,
> > telegraphs Headquarters to say he's moving to the Hotel Lazuli in
> > Nice (n. 596).
> >
> > July 15
> > Kinbote waits in vain for Shade (I. s.v. Shade, reference given as
> > 338 instead of the correct 334) to go on a promised walk. Eventually
> > he intrudes into the Shades' house, but Shade begs off (n. 47-48,
> > this being St. Swithin's Day).
> > Gradus lands in Nice in the early afternoon and sees but doesn't
> > recognize the Shadow Izumrudov as well as Andronnikov and Niagarin.
> > He learns from the cabbie taking him to his hotel that Disa has
> > gone to Italy for the rest of July (n. 697). That night or early
> > the next morning, Andronnikov and Niagarin break into the Villa
> > Disa and find, among other things, Kinbote's letter of April 2
> > with his work address (n. 741).
> >
> > July 16
> > Izumrudov gives Gradus the information about Kinbote and orders him
> > to America to continue his mission (n. 741).
> >
> > July 18
> > Gradus travels by train to Paris (n. 949).
> > That night, or in the early morning of July 19, Shade writes card
> > 65 (second part of line 797 to line 809) (n. 802).
> >
> > July 19
> > Kinbote prays in two churches. As he gets home, he hallucinates
> > Shade calling to him. When he reaches Shade, he breaks down in
> > tears, as a result of which Shade agrees to go on a ramble with
> > him at eight. By then Shade has finished Canto 3 and started
> > Canto 4. He cuts the ramble short to get back to his poem (FW,
> > n. 802,n. 835-838).
> >
> > July 20
> > Shade begins writing with line 873 (n. 873). He cites Pope in a
> > footnote on Zembla (n. 937).
> > At the same time, Gradus at Orly airport boards a jetliner for
> > America (n. 873). He arrives in New York and after finding that
> > the early flight is full and the train is inconvenient, makes
> > a plane reservation (n. 949).
> >
> > July 21
> > Shade starts with line 949 (n. 949).
> > Gradus passes time in New York learning all kinds of interesting
> > information from the _New York Times_, among other things. He
> > checks in at the airport at 2 PM and arrives in New Wye after 5,
> > not feeling so good. He gets to the Wordsmith campus, and after
> > various good and bad directions and a glimpse of Kinbote in the
> > library, he gets a ride from Gerald Emerald to within sight of
> > Shade's house (n. 949). Kinbote gets home from the library and
> > finds that Shade is nearly finished with the poem. He induces
> > Shade to come over for Tokay and walnuts (n. 991). A Red Admiral
> > cavorts around them in the evening light (n. 993-995). As they
> > arrive at Kinbote's house, Jack Grey or Jakob Gradus, who has
> > been waiting, shoots at them. Several bullets miss, but one
> > kills Shade. The gardener subdues Grey with a spade, and Kinbote
> > calls the police, who take Grey into custody. Sybil arrives.
> > Probably that night, believing from the gardener's testimony
> > that Kinbote had tried to shield Shade, she brings up the
> > possibility of recompense and agrees to let Kinbote edit the poem.
> > Kinbote puts the poem in his valise (FW, n. 1000).
> >
> > July 22
> > Kinbote reads the poem at daybreak and is bitterly disappointed to
> > find no mention of Zembla, but rereads it later and likes it better
> > (partly because he finds gleams of Zembla in it) (n. 1000).
> >
> > "Immediately after Shade's death"
> > Sybil and Kinbote sign a contract according to which he'll edit
> > "Pale Fire" without remuneration (FW). Could this be about the
> > time ("later") when Kinbote learns what epithets Sybil applied
> > to him behind his back (n. 247)?
> >
> > Shortly afterwards ("immediately upon John Shade's demise")
> > Prof. Hurley circulates a mimeographed letter expressing concern
> > over Kinbote's editing the poem (n. 376-377).
> >
> > July 22-29
> > Kinbote circulates in New Wye with the poem sewn into his clothes.
> > He interviews Jack Grey once or twice. Grey "confesses" that he
> > is Gradus, the Shadows' regicide. "A few days" after the last
> > interview, Grey kills himself (n. 1000, I.).
> >
> > July 24
> > In a newspaper interview a "professed Shadean" states that "Pale
> > Fire" is fragmentary (FW).
> >
> > July 25
> > Sybil Shade affirms in a document (her contract with Kinbote?) that
> > Shade "never intended to go beyond four parts" (FW).
> >
> > July 25-29
> > During "the last week of July", the August issue of the _Nouvelle
> > Revue Candienne_, with two translations by Sybil, appears in New
> > Wye. Kinbote makes critical notes but doesn't communicate them to
> > Sybil (n. 678).
> >
> > July 29
> > Kinbote leaves New Wye for NY after a "lugubrious week" (FW, n. 1000).
> > That day or shortly thereafter, Kinbote has the ms. of "Pale Fire"
> > photographed and, at sunset, he rejects one of Shade's publishers
> > (FW).
> >
> > Probably the next day
> > Kinbote makes a publication deal with "good old Frank" (FW).
> >
> > Before Aug. 21
> > En route from New York to Cedarn, Kinbote spends a couple of days
> > in Chicago, where he sees Prof. Hurley's Appreciation of Shade
> > (n. 71) and meets Jane Provost. Jane gives him information about
> > Hazel and the Haunted Barn incident. Pete Provost is, "alas,
> > selling automobiles in Detroit" (n. 385-386).
> >
> > After reaching Cedarn
> > Kinbote sends Sybil a letter with queries about the poem (FW).
> >
> > Early Sept.?
> > The "little blue-jeaned fisherman" stops fishing near Kinbote's
> > cabin. (n. 609-614).
> >
> > At least a month after Kinbote's letter
> > Sybil sends Kinbote a telegram asking him to accept Professors C.
> > and H. as co-editors (FW).
> >
> > Sometime in here
> > A newspaper reprints Shade's poem "Mountain View" (n. 92).
> >
> > Oct. 19 Kinbote finishes the Foreword (FW).
> >
> > Oct. 19? 20? Kinbote commits suicide (_Strong Opinions_).
> >
> > 1979 July 1
> > An $11,000,000 note for the Decker Glass Manufacturing Company comes
> > due.
> ------------------------------
>
> End of pynchon-l-digest V2 #3512
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> Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 4 (5 Next))
> Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 5)
> ------------------------------> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 4 (5 Next))
>
> > Feb. 7? 8?
> > Kinbote sees the Shades having trouble getting out of their icy
> > driveway ("one of my first mornings there") (FW).
> >
> > Feb. 16
> > Kinbote meets Shade at lunch at the Faculty Club (FW).
> >
> > A few days later
> > Kinbote gives Shade a ride home (via Community Center), where Sybil
> > introduces herself. Kinbote has "a kind of a little seminar...
> > with two charming identical twins and another boy, another boy"
> > (Bad Bob?) (FW).
> >
> > Thereafter
> > Kinbote entertains himself by spying on the Shades (FW).
> >
> > Late Feb.?
> > Kinbote shows Shade some of Judge Goldsworth's notes, having saved
> > them at least two weeks (n. 47-48).
> >
> > March 14
> > Kinbote attends a dinner party at the Shades'. Sometime after this
> > and probably before May 23, Kinbote has the Shades over for dinner
> > along with the son of a padishah (n. 579).
> >
> > March 21? 22?
> > Shade, Kinbote, and Bob go to a "dreary get-together party" at
> > Prof. C.'s house. Bob takes a color snapshot of Kinbote and Shade.
> > Mrs. C. snickers as Kinbote helps Shade find his galoshes (FW).
> >
> > March 28?
> > While Shade takes a bath, Kinbote talks with him about a reference
> > Kinbote is to look up on his trip to Washington, but neither can
> > remember what it is (FW).
> >
> > March 28? 29?
> > Kinbote is in Washington. Bob uses this absence "by entertaining
> > a fiery-haired whore from Exton". This is a week after Prof. C.'s
> > party, and it seems reasonable to put Kinbote's trip on a weekend
> > (FW).
> >
> > March 30
> > Kinbote, back from Washington, evicts Bob (FW, n. 802). For the
> > next several nights "neither wine, nor music, nor prayer could
> > allay my fears." Possibly during this period, Kinbote sees the
> > Goldsworths' cat with a white bow around its neck and, believing
> > someone has broken in, calls the police (n. 62).
> >
> > April?
> > As leaves block Kinbote's view, he gets more bold and proficient
> > about spying on the Shades (n. 47-49).
> >
> > April 2
> > Kinbote writes to Disa about his night fears and living next to Shade.
> > The letter includes his alias and the address of Wordsmith University
> > (n. 768, I.).
> >
> > Early April?
> > "After a maddening and embarrassing experience at the college
> > indoor swimming pool", Kinbote meets a needy young black man who
> > starts gardening for him the next day (n. 998).
> >
> > "Soon after Easter" (which is March 29)
> > Kinbote's gardener moves in and his nocturnal fears stop (n. 62).
> >
> > April 6
> > Kinbote receives a letter from Disa containing Shade's "The Sacred
> > Tree" (n. 49). Is this too fast to be an answer to his letter?
> >
> > Still April
> > Kinbote has recently hired the gardener. The subject of
> > anti-Semitism comes up at the Faculty Club, after which Shade and
> > Kinbote discuss Prejudice and the term "colored" (n. 470).
> >
> > Late April to early May
> > Spring bird migration in Appalachia, presumably the peak of Kinbote's
> > bird identification with his gardener's help (n. 1-4).
> >
> > Spring
> > It's announced that Odon is in Paris, and the Extremist government
> > in Zembla conjectures that the ex-king has left the country. The
> > Shadows determine to hunt him down (n. 171). This is probably
> > late in spring, as it's "almost a year" after the king escaped
> > in August, and it shouldn't be too long before Gradus draws the
> > fatal card on July 2.
> >
> > May 23
> > Kinbote attends a second souper chez Shade. Sometime, probably
> > after this and before giving Shade the plan of the palace, he
> > has the Shades over for a second dinner, with his gardener as
> > the other guest. (n. 579).
> >
> > May or June
> > Kinbote and Shade look for Shade's grandfather's pamphlets in
> > Shade's basement, and Kinbote sees the clockwork toy, in the form
> > of a black man, that Shade was playing with when he had his first
> > fainting spell (n. 143). During an evening stroll, Kinbote tells
> > Shade the story of himself and Disa and encourages Shade to
> > include it in the poem (n. 433-434).
> >
> > End of May
> > Kinbote can "make out the outlines of some of my images in the shape
> > his genius might give them" (n. 42).
> >
> > June
> > Kinbote has at least nine sunset rambles with Shade (n. 238).
> > At some point he draws and gives to Shade a plan of the Onhava
> > Palace. He stays for lunch (n. 71).
> > Probably sometime after this, he has the Shades over for dinner
> > with the blonde in the black leotard as the other guest (n. 570).
> >
> > Mid June
> > Kinbote feels sure Shade will write a poem about Zembla and
> > increases his efforts to "saturate" Shade with Zemblan stories
> > (n. 42).
> >
> > June 23
> > Kinbote and Shade play "a game of chess, a draw" and then converse
> > on Kinbote's terrace about sin, God, and the afterlife (n. 549).
> >
> > Late June
> > According to Shade's obituary, this is when he writes "The Swing",
> > though Kinbote believes it dates to shortly after Hazel's death
> > (n. 61).
> >
> > July 2
> > At 12:05 AM Zemblan time, Gradus is chosen by a show of cards to
> > assassinate Kinbote (n. 171).
> > Shortly after midnight EDT, Shade starts "Pale Fire" (FW, n. 1-4).
> > Meanwhile Kinbote plays chess with an Iranian summer student
> > (n. 1-4).
> >
> > Early or mid July
> > Shade recites an obscure friend's poetry at a Summer School party
> > at the Hurleys', and Kinbote hears Shade and Mrs. H. discuss an
> > insane porter, or Kinbote himself (n. 629).
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fwd: NPPF - Pale Fire Chronology (Part 5)
>
> > July 3
> > Sybil tells Kinbote that Shade has begun a poem but will not discuss
> > it till he's done (n. 47-48). Kinbote notes in his diary "poem
> > begun!" (n. 42).
> >
> > July 4
> > Shade finishes Canto 1 (FW) including Card 9 (n. 109). In the
> > evening, Kinbote drives a young friend 200 miles to his home,
> > where Kinbote attends two all-night parties (n. 181).
> > Oswin Bretwit suffers a pain in his groin that keeps him awake this
> > night and the next two. (n. 286).
> >
> > July 5 Shade's sixty-first birthday. He starts Canto 2 (FW, l. 181,
> > n. 181) and reaches line 208. Kinbote breakfasts at the second
> > party and returns home. In the evening Shade gives his birthday
> > party, which the uninvited Kinbote watches. (n. 181).
> > At noon Zemblan time, Gradus leaves Onhava for Copenhagen,
> > synchronized with Shade's waking up. (n. 1-4, n.181).
> >
> > July 6
> > At 3 AM Shade returns to his desk and brings his poem up to line 230.
> > At sunrise (4:30), Kinbote infers that the Shades are making love.
> > In the morning, Kinbote delivers to Sybil his present for John and
> > the third volume of _A la recherche des temps perdus_ (n. 181).
> > Later, Shade writes at least the next card (n. 231). In the
> > evening, Shade and Kinbote go on a ramble, with Sybil accompanying
> > them part of the way, and Shade refuses to discuss his progress on
> > his poem (n. 238, n. 802). As Shade reaches line 230, Gradus and
> > the Zemblan consul in Copenhagen buy clothes for Gradus to wear in
> > later notes (shortly before noon Copenhagen time) (l. 181).
> >
> > July 7
> > Shade's writings include lines 286-299 (n. 286, n. 287). Kinbote,
> > on his way to Dr. Ahlert's office for a 3:30 appointment, runs into
> > the Shades and learns from them and Dr. Ahlert that they're
> > planning to rent the Hurleys' ranch in Cedarn in August. Kinbote
> > gets information from a travel agency and mails a booking for a
> > nearby cabin (perhaps the same day) (n. 287).
> > Gradus flies to Paris, telephones Oswin Bretwit from the airport,
> > and has a futile interview with him. (n. 286).
> >
> > July 8
> > Oswin Bretwit dies during surgery (n. 286, I.).
> >
> > July 10
> > Shade's writing includes lines 406-416 and another card (n. 403-404).
> > Gradus drives from Geneva to Lex, where Odon is resting at Joe
> > Lavender's villa. Gradus is shown around by Gordon Krummholz, who
> > mentions that the King had gone to the CТte d'Azur, but Lavender
> > sends Gradus away by phone (n. 403-404). Back in Geneva, Gradus
> > has an incoherent phone conversation with Headquarters, who think
> > he's suggested breaking into the Villa Disa to look for letters
> > with the ex-king's address (n. 470).
> >
> > July 11 Shade finishes Canto 2 (FW).
> > Kinbote prowls around the Shades' house, sees them crying, and
> > bangs a garbage can but (believes he) isn't discovered (n. 47-49).
> > Gradus visits a Finnish bathhouse and sees his bare feet for the
> > last time until July 21 (n. 949).
> >
> > Mid July
> > Kinbote sees his plan of the Onhava Palace in a storage niche
> > in the Shades' house (n. 71). (This could be at his intrusion of
> > July 15.)
> >
> > July 14
> > Shade's writings include line 596 (n. 596).
> > Around this day ("a week before Shade's death") a clubwoman tells
> > Kinbote in a grocery store that he is remarkably disagreeable and
> > insane (FW).
> > Gradus, having fretted in his hotel in Geneva for four days,
> > telegraphs Headquarters to say he's moving to the Hotel Lazuli in
> > Nice (n. 596).
> >
> > July 15
> > Kinbote waits in vain for Shade (I. s.v. Shade, reference given as
> > 338 instead of the correct 334) to go on a promised walk. Eventually
> > he intrudes into the Shades' house, but Shade begs off (n. 47-48,
> > this being St. Swithin's Day).
> > Gradus lands in Nice in the early afternoon and sees but doesn't
> > recognize the Shadow Izumrudov as well as Andronnikov and Niagarin.
> > He learns from the cabbie taking him to his hotel that Disa has
> > gone to Italy for the rest of July (n. 697). That night or early
> > the next morning, Andronnikov and Niagarin break into the Villa
> > Disa and find, among other things, Kinbote's letter of April 2
> > with his work address (n. 741).
> >
> > July 16
> > Izumrudov gives Gradus the information about Kinbote and orders him
> > to America to continue his mission (n. 741).
> >
> > July 18
> > Gradus travels by train to Paris (n. 949).
> > That night, or in the early morning of July 19, Shade writes card
> > 65 (second part of line 797 to line 809) (n. 802).
> >
> > July 19
> > Kinbote prays in two churches. As he gets home, he hallucinates
> > Shade calling to him. When he reaches Shade, he breaks down in
> > tears, as a result of which Shade agrees to go on a ramble with
> > him at eight. By then Shade has finished Canto 3 and started
> > Canto 4. He cuts the ramble short to get back to his poem (FW,
> > n. 802,n. 835-838).
> >
> > July 20
> > Shade begins writing with line 873 (n. 873). He cites Pope in a
> > footnote on Zembla (n. 937).
> > At the same time, Gradus at Orly airport boards a jetliner for
> > America (n. 873). He arrives in New York and after finding that
> > the early flight is full and the train is inconvenient, makes
> > a plane reservation (n. 949).
> >
> > July 21
> > Shade starts with line 949 (n. 949).
> > Gradus passes time in New York learning all kinds of interesting
> > information from the _New York Times_, among other things. He
> > checks in at the airport at 2 PM and arrives in New Wye after 5,
> > not feeling so good. He gets to the Wordsmith campus, and after
> > various good and bad directions and a glimpse of Kinbote in the
> > library, he gets a ride from Gerald Emerald to within sight of
> > Shade's house (n. 949). Kinbote gets home from the library and
> > finds that Shade is nearly finished with the poem. He induces
> > Shade to come over for Tokay and walnuts (n. 991). A Red Admiral
> > cavorts around them in the evening light (n. 993-995). As they
> > arrive at Kinbote's house, Jack Grey or Jakob Gradus, who has
> > been waiting, shoots at them. Several bullets miss, but one
> > kills Shade. The gardener subdues Grey with a spade, and Kinbote
> > calls the police, who take Grey into custody. Sybil arrives.
> > Probably that night, believing from the gardener's testimony
> > that Kinbote had tried to shield Shade, she brings up the
> > possibility of recompense and agrees to let Kinbote edit the poem.
> > Kinbote puts the poem in his valise (FW, n. 1000).
> >
> > July 22
> > Kinbote reads the poem at daybreak and is bitterly disappointed to
> > find no mention of Zembla, but rereads it later and likes it better
> > (partly because he finds gleams of Zembla in it) (n. 1000).
> >
> > "Immediately after Shade's death"
> > Sybil and Kinbote sign a contract according to which he'll edit
> > "Pale Fire" without remuneration (FW). Could this be about the
> > time ("later") when Kinbote learns what epithets Sybil applied
> > to him behind his back (n. 247)?
> >
> > Shortly afterwards ("immediately upon John Shade's demise")
> > Prof. Hurley circulates a mimeographed letter expressing concern
> > over Kinbote's editing the poem (n. 376-377).
> >
> > July 22-29
> > Kinbote circulates in New Wye with the poem sewn into his clothes.
> > He interviews Jack Grey once or twice. Grey "confesses" that he
> > is Gradus, the Shadows' regicide. "A few days" after the last
> > interview, Grey kills himself (n. 1000, I.).
> >
> > July 24
> > In a newspaper interview a "professed Shadean" states that "Pale
> > Fire" is fragmentary (FW).
> >
> > July 25
> > Sybil Shade affirms in a document (her contract with Kinbote?) that
> > Shade "never intended to go beyond four parts" (FW).
> >
> > July 25-29
> > During "the last week of July", the August issue of the _Nouvelle
> > Revue Candienne_, with two translations by Sybil, appears in New
> > Wye. Kinbote makes critical notes but doesn't communicate them to
> > Sybil (n. 678).
> >
> > July 29
> > Kinbote leaves New Wye for NY after a "lugubrious week" (FW, n. 1000).
> > That day or shortly thereafter, Kinbote has the ms. of "Pale Fire"
> > photographed and, at sunset, he rejects one of Shade's publishers
> > (FW).
> >
> > Probably the next day
> > Kinbote makes a publication deal with "good old Frank" (FW).
> >
> > Before Aug. 21
> > En route from New York to Cedarn, Kinbote spends a couple of days
> > in Chicago, where he sees Prof. Hurley's Appreciation of Shade
> > (n. 71) and meets Jane Provost. Jane gives him information about
> > Hazel and the Haunted Barn incident. Pete Provost is, "alas,
> > selling automobiles in Detroit" (n. 385-386).
> >
> > After reaching Cedarn
> > Kinbote sends Sybil a letter with queries about the poem (FW).
> >
> > Early Sept.?
> > The "little blue-jeaned fisherman" stops fishing near Kinbote's
> > cabin. (n. 609-614).
> >
> > At least a month after Kinbote's letter
> > Sybil sends Kinbote a telegram asking him to accept Professors C.
> > and H. as co-editors (FW).
> >
> > Sometime in here
> > A newspaper reprints Shade's poem "Mountain View" (n. 92).
> >
> > Oct. 19 Kinbote finishes the Foreword (FW).
> >
> > Oct. 19? 20? Kinbote commits suicide (_Strong Opinions_).
> >
> > 1979 July 1
> > An $11,000,000 note for the Decker Glass Manufacturing Company comes
> > due.
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