Pale Fire

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:50, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > the alarm bells start to ring on the very first page of the Foreword where
> Kinbote suddenly writes "There is a very loud amusement park right in front of
> my present lodgings." 
> 
> These asides, which happen at least twice in the foreword made me question the
> very concept of this "book" being a fictional entity.  Asides are mental jigs
> and jogs which don't usually appear in the middle of forewords.  They would
> never make it into the text in the first place, let alone escape an editor.

Comparison between Kinbote's and Pynchon's forewords could make an
interesting exercise.

Does the latter ever show lack of editing?

p.