Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 76

JJ: {Taken aback} Is that a
N: Look at the window.
dead bird?
JJ: I see its reflection...
N: It is a dead bird.
N: {Grins} That’s right. The
{Nabokov pushes the dead bird is a reflection of the origi-
bird towards JJ. JJ reels back nal bird. Right now, it’s the
in disgust. Nabokov then sets only bird in view. That’s how
the window up behind the we build stories. We reflect
bird.} them. In that sense, the bird
is original. It isn’t the same
bird you looked at before, it’s
N: The dead bird is Luke Sky-
a reflection. That’s its own en-
walker.
tity. Does that make sense?
JJ: Couldn’t you have used a
JJ: {Seems to ponder it for a
Luke Skywalker toy..?
moment} I guess it does, in a
way.
N: Listen. {Uses hand to shield
bird from view} Can you see
N: “The moon’s an arrant
the bird now?
thief, and her pale fire she
snatches from the sun.” Are
JJ: No....
not the sun and the moon
opposites?
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