Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 27

ple. Is it not also true that a
major theme of Pale Fire is
that the reader cannot deter-
mine who the author(s) are?
There are allusions to Shade
writing the poem and Kin-
bote writing the foreword
and commentary, but really it
could have been Hazel as
well, or King Charles, etc.
MR. SHADE I’d like to have a
word with my client. Alone.
BARD OF AVON
Very well.
All exit.
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