S.K-B quoted and wrote:
Pale Fire "is full of plums that I keep hoping somebody will
find"...All the Tom Thumbs are thereby encouraged...( ...Is this some accepted meta-level of meta-narrative analysis
where the author/creator, VN, deliberately sets out to confuse the reader about
which of VN’s allusions are known or unknown to his
creature-characters?)
C.K helped me to find the nursery rhymes
about good little boy Jack Horner sitting in a corner as I was
intrigued by K-B's plums and thumbs, and by his posting addressed to
D.Zimmer as well.
( Why "Tom Thumbs" ? )
I had recently read U. Eco's lecture
about the Poe/Gordon Pym authorial ploys.Google did the rest ... I was carried on to Poe's "Pym" ( ) in
relation to Pale Fire in:
LeClair, Thomas.
"Poe's Pym and Nabakov's Pale Fire," Notes on Contemporary
Literature, 3 (1973), 2-3. [Points out a "submerged" allusion to Pym
in Nabakov's Pale Fire.] [column 2:] Text: J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas
C. Carlson, John E. Reilly and Judy Osowski, " Current Poe Bibliography," from
Poe Studies, vol. VIII, no. 2, December 1975, pp.
43-46.]
(Nabakov?)
Since I, unfortunately, have no
easy access to specialized articles, I wonder if anyone would inform me
about this "submerged" allusion in Pale Fire to Pym and his "Strange Dis/appearance" ( btw, I enjoyed J.Katsell's
moebiusian: "peeking out from within PF and winking at the
reader" in relation to Disa).