In a message dated
17/11/02 23:08:15 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:
Might she have had a roommate? Of course. Does she?
No.
Dear Carolyn,
Why not at the chateau, for
instance, as Thomas Bolt suggests? Might it not have been an organised
trip for some of Hazel's fellow-students? Has someone given an explanation
of why that can't be which I have missed?
You may be entirely right about
Shade's disintegration. I don't know. I had tended to assume, since
I first read Pale Fire soon after publication, that he was, among other things,
trying to depict a day in the life of the poet, making fun of his own moments of
(fairly ordinary) grandiosity and showing how comically quickly he reverted to
non-grandiose ordinariness.