[NPPF] Nabokov On The Poem, 'Pale Fire'

[Scott Badger]

s~Z:
> "Nabokov had been turning over various seeds of Pale Fire as 
> early as 1939,
> but the form it was finally to take did not crystallize until 
> 1960. When he
> submitted the poem, originally called "The Brink," to Esquire in 1961, he
> told editor Rust Hills that it was "racy and tricky, and unpleasant, and
> bizarre." (Esquire rejected the piece, as the magazine never published
> poetry.)"
> http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/fswitz.htm
> 
> Main Entry: brink
> Pronunciation: 'bri[ng]k
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old 
> Norse brekka
> slope; akin to Middle Dutch brink grassland

A (very) slippery slope...