NPPF&VLVL2 Preliminaries: The Epigraphs

[Don Corathers]

And is it Nabokov's epigraph, or Kinbote's?

DC

> It's not the cat but the shot, and which cat doesn't get it, that relates
> the epigraph to Kinbote's story. Innit?
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> Don Corathers
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> > I'd say that the relationship between Nabokov's epigraph and his novel
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> > more oblique than that between Pynchon's and _Vineland_.
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> > get the sense that the satiric connection is between Kinbote (as
Boswell)
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> > correlate with the narrative in the same way that the modified proverb
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> > cliché does in _Vineland_. (In other words, no cat.)
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