Pale Fire

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 17 08:59:15 CDT 2003


--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> keithsz at concentric.net writes:
> 
> > >>>Yes, I guess only readers who pick up the book and "believe" (in)
Kinbote would try to follow his instructions <<<
> > 
> > And readers who want to get inside the Kinbote perspective.
> > 
> And hardly a given, that.   It is Kinbote, after all, who is offering the 
Hopscotch thread--suggesting a leap over the poem to his commentary.  Impatient
man, Kinbote.

Hopping ahead to this last line shows the reader some indication of the nature
of Kinbote's unreliability.  You see his perspective and also it's craziness.

Maybe I'm just impatient too.

David Morris


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