How people read the Pyncher & PF

calbert at hslboxmaster.com calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Tue Oct 8 12:18:11 CDT 2002



> I think it is Petillion
>who suggests a connection with an earlier work (Borges, maybe - my notes
>are in the office) where this idea is more explicit, 


Or maybe not........Cursory scan suggests I may be confusing Petillon with
another work, but I did glean this nugget from his article.....

"Others were fascinated by the formal intricacies of this sophisticated
Borges-like artifact. One was on more familiar ground here, having read, if
not "Osberg" (Nabokov's "pet" name for Borges), then at least Pale
Fire......"

A Re-Cognition of Her Errand into the Wilderness, P-Y Petillon........New
Essays on COL49, pg. 128........

love,
cfa



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