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From: "luther moss" <luthermoss@mac.com>
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> I've never really thought about how this worked for me exactly, but I
> found my first reading of Pale Fire was eased by the Pale Fire derived
> and inspired Meta-Texts that lead me to the book in the first place.
> Reading a lesser novel such as Lee Siegel's Love in a Dead Language [
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226756998/
> qid=1052849411/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-8381542-
> 1848705?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ] or Mark Z. Danielewski's House of
> Leaves [
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703764/qid=1052849567/sr=2-
> 1/ref=sr_2_1/104-8381542-1848705 ] before approaching Pale Fire allows
> one to access a "dumbed down" variation on some of the devices at work
> in Nabokov's nigh impenetrable novel. Think of it as a crutch for your
> first stumble through Pale Fire.
> Most importantly, try not to be too hard on yourself. You are, after
> all, trying to understand a text muddled by Kinbote's inability to
> understand a second text, and that's just for starters.
> Luther Moss
>
>
From: "luther moss" <luthermoss@mac.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
lines) ------------------
> I've never really thought about how this worked for me exactly, but I
> found my first reading of Pale Fire was eased by the Pale Fire derived
> and inspired Meta-Texts that lead me to the book in the first place.
> Reading a lesser novel such as Lee Siegel's Love in a Dead Language [
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226756998/
> qid=1052849411/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-8381542-
> 1848705?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ] or Mark Z. Danielewski's House of
> Leaves [
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703764/qid=1052849567/sr=2-
> 1/ref=sr_2_1/104-8381542-1848705 ] before approaching Pale Fire allows
> one to access a "dumbed down" variation on some of the devices at work
> in Nabokov's nigh impenetrable novel. Think of it as a crutch for your
> first stumble through Pale Fire.
> Most importantly, try not to be too hard on yourself. You are, after
> all, trying to understand a text muddled by Kinbote's inability to
> understand a second text, and that's just for starters.
> Luther Moss
>
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