NPPF -- Why care about Kinbote?

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 9 16:39:04 CDT 2003


--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> It's quite pointless to quibble over what one likes and what one or another 
doesn't.   I'll simply say that the qualities you seek in a novel (as I
understand them) prevent your taking Pale Fire on its own terms.

No, I fully plan on taking Pale Fire on its own terms.  Its terms require one
to search it for a hidden story.  My quibble was that the surface story didn't
hold much water all by itself.  But evidently the hidden story can lead one to
become quite obsessed.

DM

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