NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook

[Malignd]

<<Kinda of a silly thing to say. I mean, it's not as
if we're playing a game of chess here. There is no
rule against castling a Queen. And after having done
so, and after putting a one's King in one's pocket,
substituting a salt shaker for the missing king.>>

It isn't silly, necessarily.  Nabokov has created a
novel that is in part a puzzle; he invites his reader
to respond to it as such; he is on record elsewhere
that, in writing, he likes to create elegant puzzles. 
He is, as you probably know, a writer of chess
puzzles.

The comments I refer to question whether, in creating
yet another level of "who's authoring whom," elegance
is lost rather than gained.
 

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