NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook

[David Morris]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>   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?

All this "about" stuff from you!  :)

If the text aint any good, who cares about the author?  If the author wan'ts to
sick in his identity, it should go further than the act.  It should add
something.

DM


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