Pale Fire

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 14 12:49:14 CDT 2003



Jasper Fidget wrote:
> 
> A few years ago I found an Ada first edition in a small town library
> thrift sale.  It cost me $1.  Ada, incidentally, was for me a much more
> difficult book than Pale Fire.  Has anyone here seriously studied it?

Got my copy the same way, a discarded library copy, a 1969, only cost me
a buck. 
I read it recently. It's beautiful. Not as difficult as PF. PF is a pain
in the ass. 
But it's a perfect book for the Pynchon List. Again, I think the set up
or schedule is absurd. I would like to try teaming up with someone on a
canto & commentary. Of course we would need to be at liberty to spoil,
thread into other "sections" of the text and make general comments that
would not be restricted by the spoiler rule.



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