NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook

[Malignd]

<<But ultimately what is the value of a Botkin
existing at all, whether another as a layer beneath
Kinbote's madness or as a genius creator of a
fictional construct which includes authorship of a
poem, other than, as Kaplan posits, for Nabokov to
poke his own identity into the text. >> 

<<Isn't that what Pale Fire is about? Authors poking
their identities into the texts?>>

There is among some commentators the notion that David
is echoing, i.e., that Botkin might prove one wrinkle
too many on VN's part.  

When one first discovers Botkin buried in the mix
there is an expectation that a--"the"--telling clue,
or skeleton key has been discovered.

Alas. 




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