Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 11

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Act one, Scene one (2): Lord create a scrapbook of details
Holmes- I mean Timon (see pasting and clipping the parts
commentary to line 27 on together to show the similari-
page 78) ties between the two. Vladi-
mir Nabokov allowed me one
A rich, giving, rather likeable
day to analyze literature in a
lord of Athens, the main char-
acter
in
William
new way; when looking at the
Shake-
play and the novel they hap-
speare’s Timon of Athens . I
pened to intercommunicate
have many means at the pre-
most
sent time to draw parallels
pleasingly.
branched
between the play and novel
would
but suspect that the best
be
(or
Both
perhaps
better
to
it
say
stemmed) from the idea that
place to look for that would
there was a change in fate. If
be in the other notes.
readers take Kinbote as the
former king of Zembla then
Act one, scene one (1) : Shift the initial resemblance be-
and change (see commentary tween Kinbote and Timon is
to line 91 on page 114) hard to ignore. The first piece
Among the evidence linking of evidence comes from the
the two works, scholars can foreword of the novel, “what
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