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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:43 AM
Subject: Boyd's footnotes to Pale Fire
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> I have been perusing Brian Boyd's footnotes to Pale Fire in the Library of
> America edition with great interest. Two of the footnotes help to identify
> Kinbote with Stevenson's Mr Hyde: the author of "History of the Rebellion"
> that Kinbote references in his note to lines 597-608 is Edward Hyde; the
> meaning of the name Kinbote according to Boyd is compensation to survivors
> for homicide which references an episode in Stevenson's story.
>
> I would like to disagree with two of his notes, however. The figure of
> Gradus gliding through the skies with umbrella and travelling bag is not
> Charlie Chaplin as the little Tramp; the umbrella may be his, but the bag
> belongs to Mary Poppins. Also the star of "Remorse" is probably not
Marilyn
> Monroe (no beauty mark, and the only tragic role she played came after
> Nabokov wrote Pale Fire) but may be Fleur with her "blurry, Gallic way" in
> Kinbote's note to line 80.
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:43 AM
Subject: Boyd's footnotes to Pale Fire
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (17
lines) ------------------
> I have been perusing Brian Boyd's footnotes to Pale Fire in the Library of
> America edition with great interest. Two of the footnotes help to identify
> Kinbote with Stevenson's Mr Hyde: the author of "History of the Rebellion"
> that Kinbote references in his note to lines 597-608 is Edward Hyde; the
> meaning of the name Kinbote according to Boyd is compensation to survivors
> for homicide which references an episode in Stevenson's story.
>
> I would like to disagree with two of his notes, however. The figure of
> Gradus gliding through the skies with umbrella and travelling bag is not
> Charlie Chaplin as the little Tramp; the umbrella may be his, but the bag
> belongs to Mary Poppins. Also the star of "Remorse" is probably not
Marilyn
> Monroe (no beauty mark, and the only tragic role she played came after
> Nabokov wrote Pale Fire) but may be Fleur with her "blurry, Gallic way" in
> Kinbote's note to line 80.
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
>