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Re: Pale Fire and Boyd (fwd)
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From: Thomas Bolt <bolt@spacelab.net>
I agree with the Editor: even more obviously than LOLITA (another book
in which one character has the tyrannical power to control everything
that is said [though Kinbote cannot write poetry, so some of Shade gets
through]), PALE FIRE depends on an intersection of frames of reference.
The novel is relativistic.
As he often does, Nabokov structures his ending to show that the frames
of reference we've been busily trying to make sense of--or suffering
from--are also local.
I agree with the Editor: even more obviously than LOLITA (another book
in which one character has the tyrannical power to control everything
that is said [though Kinbote cannot write poetry, so some of Shade gets
through]), PALE FIRE depends on an intersection of frames of reference.
The novel is relativistic.
As he often does, Nabokov structures his ending to show that the frames
of reference we've been busily trying to make sense of--or suffering
from--are also local.