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[EDNOTE. This post, submitted earlier by Sergei Soloviev, was held up for delivery over the weekend. Sorry about that -- SES]
I do not see any quoted passage below that would explain the
presence of the phrase about "loud amusement park" in the Foreword.
I used the expression "Fair Copy" exactly because it is used by Kinbote to
explain the state of manuscript of "Pale Fire". I asked
whether the text of the Foreword itself can be considered
as a "Fair Copy". (I.e., ready to be sent to editor.)
Of course it is possible to derive
that the "loud amusement park"
is supposed to be where Kinbote is writing the commentary
(Cedarn, Utana...), but the phrases about this amusement
park should not be included in a normal Foreword. So, they
were not "edited out". It is also difficult to believe that
they existed only in imagination of somebody, but a delusional
person may not "edit them out" if they were on paper.
Best,
Sergei
Le Vendredi 27 Octobre 2006 18:57, vous avez écrit :
> Dear Sergey,
> I'm not sure what you mean by "keys" but "the loud amusement park is
> explained in the quoted passage below. As for the "Fair Copy" business, do
> you have the poem manuscript or the Commentary in mind? If the poem --- all
> the poem
> is "Fair Copy" except for the final stanzas since S. did not live long
> enough to
> correct them.
>
> Best, Don Johnson
>
> Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I already asked this question, but in the end of another posting and in
> > less detail.
> >
> > Several phrases in the Kinbote's Foreword seem to indicate that
> > a)it existed on paper b) it is not a "Fair Copy":
> >
> > "... I alone am responsible for any mistakes in my commentary. INSERT
> > BEFORE A PROFESSIONAL. A professional proofreader has carefully
> > rechecked..." (p.17 of Penguin Classics edition, 2000)
> >
> > "... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
> > lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
> >
> > " ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
> > precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
> > carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye." (p.25)
> >
> > What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Sergei Soloviev
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I do not see any quoted passage below that would explain the
presence of the phrase about "loud amusement park" in the Foreword.
I used the expression "Fair Copy" exactly because it is used by Kinbote to
explain the state of manuscript of "Pale Fire". I asked
whether the text of the Foreword itself can be considered
as a "Fair Copy". (I.e., ready to be sent to editor.)
Of course it is possible to derive
that the "loud amusement park"
is supposed to be where Kinbote is writing the commentary
(Cedarn, Utana...), but the phrases about this amusement
park should not be included in a normal Foreword. So, they
were not "edited out". It is also difficult to believe that
they existed only in imagination of somebody, but a delusional
person may not "edit them out" if they were on paper.
Best,
Sergei
Le Vendredi 27 Octobre 2006 18:57, vous avez écrit :
> Dear Sergey,
> I'm not sure what you mean by "keys" but "the loud amusement park is
> explained in the quoted passage below. As for the "Fair Copy" business, do
> you have the poem manuscript or the Commentary in mind? If the poem --- all
> the poem
> is "Fair Copy" except for the final stanzas since S. did not live long
> enough to
> correct them.
>
> Best, Don Johnson
>
> Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I already asked this question, but in the end of another posting and in
> > less detail.
> >
> > Several phrases in the Kinbote's Foreword seem to indicate that
> > a)it existed on paper b) it is not a "Fair Copy":
> >
> > "... I alone am responsible for any mistakes in my commentary. INSERT
> > BEFORE A PROFESSIONAL. A professional proofreader has carefully
> > rechecked..." (p.17 of Penguin Classics edition, 2000)
> >
> > "... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
> > lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
> >
> > " ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
> > precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
> > carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye." (p.25)
> >
> > What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Sergei Soloviev
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