NPPF commentary line 149, p. 143- continued

bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 6 00:08:21 CDT 2003


At 8:44 PM -0700 10/5/03, Keith McMullen wrote:
>  >>>Bekah, I appreciate your response, but I'm confused. How are you
>connecting your reading of Glittertin with my note about Kinbote's
>interrogation of identity and Pynchon's reference in V to Sartre's notion
>of the construction of identity?<<<
>
>If you note the portion of your post she left at the beginning of her post
>you will see that she is making a Pynchon-Nabokov connection of her own, not
>relating to the portion of your post that she snipped.


That's exactly what I did. I was just making my own little 
observation on how I found a connection. I probably could have 
started a new thread so as to keep it less confused but both the name 
of the mountain, "Glitterntin," and Pynchon were in your post so 
that's where I snipped and added.  :)

Bekah




>
>On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, bekah wrote:
>
>>  At 9:26 PM -0400 10/5/03, Michael Joseph wrote:
>>  >P.S. Just to make the connection between Nabokov and Pynchon, in the
>>  >context of _Pale Fire's_
>>
>>
>>  Actually, I have a note in my book at line 149, page 144, where Mr.
>>  Kinbote describes "Mt. Glitterntin." To me it sounded like putting a
>>  name together in the manner of "Frenesi," which I pronounce "free 'n
>>  easy" but without too hard of a long "e" sound.
>>  So hear we have either "Glitterin' tin" or 'Glitter 'n tin."
>>
>>  Bekah
>>
>>




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