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Dear List -
I would note, how far purely textual analogies may led us.
Formally speaking, the slips by Kinbote in his introduction
(remarks about noise, lines adressed to a corrector or an editor,
not ordinary reader) are not much different from the instructions, for
example, attached to the Psalms by King David (... to the Choir
Leader...
use such and such musical instrument... or even about the circumstances
when a Psalm was created...).
While it is indeed difficult to find a self adressed note
("a note for future use") in a real
(not fictional) poem, because which poet would risk to play with his
editors, the whole playful spirit of modern litterature makes
it possible, let's mention a chapter in the "Ulisses" (newspaper).
Concerning our discussion (as a self-reference) let me quote from
Lewis Carroll "Sylvie and Bruno":
"Why should you always have live things in stories?" Said the Professor.
"Why don't you have events, or circumstances?"
(...)
"Once a coincidence was taking a walk with a little accident, and they
met an explanation - a very old explanation - so old that it was quite
doubled up, and looked more like a conundrum --"
(Ch. XXIII, The Pig-Tale)
Cheers,
Sergei