Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 21

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BARD OF AVON
The sheer need more than that. How
amount of references to the about the title of your book?
play brings about suspicion. We are given quite a straight-
For
example,
character’s
during one forward answer as to where
reflection on that came from. “Help me,
childhood, we have a “thirty-
Will. Pale Fire.” (285).
twomo edition of Timon of
MR. SHADE If I may interject,
Athens ” (125), and again at a
there is a line below from the
later date “the tiny volume of
commentator that you are
Timon Afinsken still lying in
missing: “All I have with me is
one corner” (128), and a street
a tiny vest pocket edition of
named “Timon Alley” (126)
Timon of Athens – in Zem-
from the same reflection.
blan!
Does that not seem excessive
certainly
contains
nothing that could be re-
to you?
garded as an equivalent of
Silence
‘pale fire’” (285). If we take
BARD OF AVON
this into consideration, it is
Well it
the opinion of the commen-
seems excessive to me, but
tator that these two works do
we cannot go around con-
victing
It
people
based
not have enough in com-
off
mon, and that in fact, Pale
mere excessiveness. No we
Fire is regarded in a superior
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