Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 14

of what they knew.
He also to dig a little deeper and then
forces readers of both works dig deeper again and then
to look at each in a new way dig deeper one more time
while keeping the other in just for fun.
mind, once again showing
the power of multiple inter-
Act four, scene 3: Pale Fire
pretations.
(see commentary to lines 376-
377 on page 194)
If Nabokov had copied a dif-
ferent
Shakespearean
Although it may be taken to
play,
refer to the man who wrote
such as Romeo and Juliet ,
the poem as John Shade, the
which has been done and
reader cannot be blamed for
then done again and then
applying the credit to Charles
done one more time just for
Kinbote, the fine psychopath
fun, he would have lost some
and inept friend who for a
of his punch. He chose a pop-
while seemed to be the king
ular writer, but he did not
of one Zembla. Certainly the
choose the most popular play
migraines have come from in-
showing that the similarities
terpreting
between the two are often
not
common
the
poem
and
commentary and where it
knowledge.
was legitimate commentary
Consequently, this reaffirms
and where it was the ram-
the fact that to truly get the
blings of a madman who
most out of the book one has
wanted to voice his opinion. If
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