NPPF - Canto One - more notes

[David Morris]

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:34, David Morris wrote:
>I haven't read all of Boyd's "Shade and Shape in Pale Fire" (but I will). 
What I have read of it seems hopelessly muddled by its seeing both Shade's poem
(maybe even his death) as being guided from the beyond, and then seeing him as
doing the same thing to Kinbote as he writes the Commentary.
>I'll read the whole thing before I say any more about it.
> 
> 
> I can only hope that nobody rejects the new theory on the spot merely on the
grounds that spiritualism is a lot of hooey. Nabokov is on record as holding
that great novels are great fairy tales. (something to that effect)

I agree, but (still not having finished the above) it seems that the
"resonances" between what is supposedly written by two different people means
either:

1.  One person wrote the whole thing (Shadean, Kinbotean, or Schitzo theory).
2.  Kinbote's commentary echoes his being influenced by the poem (surtface
story).
3.  Shade is pulling strings from the beyond.
4.  It was left intentionally indeterminate.

DM

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