Pale Fire

[Jasper Fidget]

> Glad to be too late to host a section. I'm a better gadfly.

I happen to have a spare section if you're shopping for one.

> that all I remember is "Ne strelyeite!" -- Don't shoot.

How about "Za vashe zdorovye"? -- To Your Health (before drinking)

> Charles, King of Zembla? - sounds like Zemlya, Earth, as I recall.

Zembla, Novya Zembla, Nova Zembla, the North, the furthest extreme,
Ultimate Tully, Ultima Thule, "the extreme of Vice" and "the region of a
malignant deity called 
Criticism".  Also a rhododendron.  (But I must wait a month for a full
Zemblan flood...)

> is possible with a reflexive (AF) hermeneutic, where say, A 
> kills B, but A *IS* B.

AF: the term is appreciated, but grep for "spoiler" while you're surfing
for Nabokov.  On second thought, never mind -- I will NOT be the Spoiler
Police.  (I've used that surf utility btw, thanks for that.)

Jasper Fidget

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Scheper
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:29 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pale Fire
> 
> 
> Glad to be too late to host a section. I'm a better gadfly.
> In another window I am running "surf -q Vladimir Nabokov"
> Oops, it's done. 108 files to read. 107. 106. 105....
> 
> When I get Pale Fire I'll pick up a Russian dictionary too. 
> They taught me Russian in the U.S. Army, and I like to joke 
> that all I remember is "Ne strelyeite!" -- Don't shoot.
> 
> But when I told that to a Russian-speaking Romanian at work, 
> after a moment he said, Oh you mean Ne Streyleieieieieiitye, 
> and then I knew that I'd really lost all my Russian skills.
> 
> Charles, King of Zembla? - sounds like Zemlya, Earth, as I recall.
> 
> My kingdom is not of this world. He makes us kings and 
> priests. I suspect that the "Kings of the Earth" turn out to 
> be good guys in Revelation, not the bad guys. So much of that 
> is possible with a reflexive (AF) hermeneutic, where say, A 
> kills B, but A *IS* B.
> 
> I'm gonna love this read. (AF=autofellatio. I will say AF much.)
>  
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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