Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 32

wealthy
and
is
constantly
es for its demise. His servant
sharing his wealth with who- Flavius
delivers
ever surrounds him, never monologue, where he is talk-
asking for anything in return ing to his fellow servants
(and nothing is ever offered to about
him). However, there comes a thing has happened to his
point where Timon realized master and insists that he will
he owes a great deal of mon- always be by Timon’s side,
ey, and when he approaches whether Timon is wealthy or
his ‘friends’ whom he was so not.
what
a
the
above
treacherous
generous with in the past,
they all turn him down and
The second poem, whilst very
refuse to aid him in any way.
similar to the first one, can be
One of Timon’s ‘friends’ is
interpreted in a vastly differ-
quoted as saying “this is no
ent way with some context
time to lend money, especially
from the story of Pale Fire .
upon bare friendship” (lines
This novel is about with a man
928-929). At the point in the
named Charles Kinbote, who
play where the poem above is
obtains a poem from his re-
taken from, the protagonist
cently departed friend named
Timon is living in a cave out in
John Shade. The book mainly
the woods, far from humanity.
deals with how Kinbote inter-
Timon feels betrayed by his
prets the poem and goes off
fellow humans and starts to
on tangential stories while he
spite all of mankind and wish-
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