NPPF

[cfalbert]

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  From: Otto 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:07 PM
  Subject: NPPF



  Essay on Man
  by Alexander Pope
  http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext00/esymn10.txt


  This is as good a time as any to raise this........It is important to understand that Pope serves a specific, rather than a  general (such as Wordsworth and Goldsmith) purpose in PF. Clearly his epigrammatic concerns are shared by Nabokov, but they are not the "driving force" of Pale Fire. 

  The particular excerpt upon which N relies for Zembla deals, on the literal level - with the absolute location of "north", but on the figurative one, with the "boundaries of virtue and vice". As such it may shed light on Nabokov's intentions with respect to Kinbote's prurient excesses and our response to them.....

  love,
  cfa
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