Pale Fire

[Terrance]

Jasper Fidget wrote:
> 
> Well, we could divide the NPPF sub-group into two sub-sub-groups,
> NPPF-SPOILED and NPPF-UNSPOILED.  Or we could just wait until a certain
> Expiration date for spoilage (the way they do with lettuce).  (I *think*
> I'm joking.)
> 
> If you were teaching this book to a classroom of students I think you'd
> probably go through it once linearly and then discuss it as a whole only
> afterwards.  Or would you teach it as "hypertext"?  Or would you tell
> them: "Don't come to class until you've read this book from beginning to
> end ("Pale Fire,"[...]"a distant northern land.")?
>

In his Foreword Kinbote advises us to consult the commentary first and
then read the poem. I guess he assumes we're reading his "skimpy"
Foreword first. So now that I think on it, I kinda like the idea of
reading the poem first, the index, the foreword,  and then the
commentary last. But what about the other ploys to get us reading the
text in a particular sequence? For example, if the commentary on Canto I
tells us to see Canto III lines 6-9 should we take a peak? If we do will
we be obliged ("see ... commentary") or at least tempted to read  the
commentary on Canto II lines 6-9 and so on?