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Re: Erasmus Darwin & PF: the poem as a satire
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1. Note about former posting on Slezak and "Laughter in the Dark": returning to the issue about "fiction and reality" and "metafiction"
CK: Jansy told me how funny she found Nabokov's joke about missing the swan...But that's not Nabokov's joke, it is a famous anecdote from the career ... and VN's text: in a new good-natured manner launched into a funny story about some friend of his, an opera singer who once...
In an informal exchange I spoke about VN's joke, but we can see that the joke has been recounted by VN ( he quoted an "an opera singer friend") , although it remained a fully fledged joke that remains part of the novel .
MR: a long poem of four cantos in heroic couplets by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)called "Loves of the Plants: A Poem with Philosophical Notes." The poem references
Zembla in one passage is filled with nymphs and crystal and several plants that appear in Pale Fire...
JM: Now, more than ever before, I'm certain that "Pale Fire" was a satirical poem in its own right and not only the novel, thanks to Kinbote and his commentary.
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1. Note about former posting on Slezak and "Laughter in the Dark": returning to the issue about "fiction and reality" and "metafiction"
CK: Jansy told me how funny she found Nabokov's joke about missing the swan...But that's not Nabokov's joke, it is a famous anecdote from the career ... and VN's text: in a new good-natured manner launched into a funny story about some friend of his, an opera singer who once...
In an informal exchange I spoke about VN's joke, but we can see that the joke has been recounted by VN ( he quoted an "an opera singer friend") , although it remained a fully fledged joke that remains part of the novel .
MR: a long poem of four cantos in heroic couplets by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)called "Loves of the Plants: A Poem with Philosophical Notes." The poem references
Zembla in one passage is filled with nymphs and crystal and several plants that appear in Pale Fire...
JM: Now, more than ever before, I'm certain that "Pale Fire" was a satirical poem in its own right and not only the novel, thanks to Kinbote and his commentary.
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