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jansymello <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
JM:I got the feeling that MR is chiding JA, after reaching a conclusion that JA was "trying to shut down all further attempts to understand the narrative of the novel." or "couldn't tolerate, and even relish" theories with which he was in disagreement. I'd like to avoid the rigmarole of "taking sides", at this point.
J.A. Mr. Aisenberg was not trying to shut down interpretion of the novel Pale Fire, he wouldn't know how if he tried; after all, the author himself dismissed Mary Mccarthy's intricate reading of the book and it didn't matter. I was merrely throwing in my two cents about what I took to be the book's essentially comic themes. Other than the minor poltergeist incident and a slight "shade" of meaning in Hazel's empty swing, I never undterstood how a reader was supposed to "see" the influential pattern of the ghosts. Another thing, it seems that Nabokov in this book, relates, tongue in cheek, the idea of "immortality" to literary immortality.
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