NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2

[Terrance]

Jasper Fidget wrote:

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> Later we'll see where and how Fleur ends up, and the similarity to Ophelia
> becomes a striking contrast (which we may not have noticed if VN hadn't
> taught us to look for it).
> 
> Bizarro Jasper

Taught us? 

Yes, Pale Fire is about teaching. 
Yes, it really is. Nabokov was a teacher.
 Lots of his characters are too. 

Teach Karlik! 

Ridiculous? A man of such wealth, teach boys to write and read? 

Ah, I'm quite sure Nab had a soft spot in his heart fro Jimmy Joyce. 


Reading the commentary I'm reminded of the ridiculous  arguments that
men like T.S. Eliot got into over Hamlet. Eliot sounds rather ridiculous
insisting that everything is About the  "Objective Correlative." 

Line 962 
Help me, Will. Pale Fire. 

My reader must make their own research. 

Read Shakespeare! 

Poor man, he's only got a Zemblan copy of Timon in his "cave." 

The translator spent half a century on Will's works. 

He was a pioneer, a veterano de la jungla, but he lived too much in the
world of books and not enough in the world of boys. Writers, Nabokov
teaches in his lectures, need a library, a cave, but they need, less
they start doing battle with windmills, to see the world, pluck its figs
and peaches, and not keep constantly mediating in the tower of yellow
ivory--which was also John Shade's mistake in a way.