Pale Fire

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:25, 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?
> 

Ada was more difficult on the level at which I read it. Never studied it
in any sense of the word. The family relationships were confusing until
one caught on to them, and then the very symmetry of them was quite
pleasurable. There was one part late in the book I think I just gave up
on. Some theoretical exploration of something. I have the book right
here at my elbow. I notice in this early edition there it not that set
of Nabokov's notes at the end that appear in later editions. 

P.