Corrections & Notes to what kind of fiction is Charles Kinbote's Foreword?
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 2 09:36:51 CDT 2003
Terrance wrote:
>
> My Foreword (I say it's my forweord so as not to confuse the first time reader, second go rounders will immediately recognize this claim to authorship as a fiction of the kind that can no longer be catagorized after the collpase of London Bridge ....
(who is the author of this Foreword anyway? and does it
> matter?) [strike]
purchasing two copies (at least one copy should include the Behind of
Fromm and the Front by Pynchon) of Nineteen Eighty-Four which can be
> placed in adjacent positions on a comfortable bed--not unlike the
> Brazilian brass bed my dear Hockell (Benny's Mom)
is sleeping in now, in this house by
> the sea reflecting a[E article here] cool clouds, mile away from the violence and blood
> that spills out each night onto our streets.
Let me state that without
> my notes Shade's shade simply has no human reality at all since the
> human reality of such a poem as his (being to [s/b two] shady and spiritual
for a
> non-posthumous work), with the omission of many pithy [s/b pretty or handsome, your choice]
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