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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