Pale Fire

[Jasper Fidget]

Interesting, you're right -- my 1990 Random House (Vintage imprint) has
the index, while the 1969 McGraw-Hill does not.  Index is credited to
Vivian Darkbloom (aka VN) so I assume he added it himself...?  (The 1990
edition btw has a much nicer cover!)

Jasper Fidget


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> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Paul Mackin
> 
> 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.
>