NPPF Zembla & the Criminal Imagination

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The article referenced below speaks to one of the similarities between
Pynchon and Nabokov. While many look for content in Pynchon to support their
political (or other) views, or to find his, the proof is the pudding. It is
not *in* the pudding.

"Pale Fire is probably Nabokov's most ludic and liberated Gumilevian
performance: a hare's nest of formal patterns, mock-scholarly apparatus, and
shifting motives, Pale Fire is a cryptic, secretive text designed to disrupt
and confound totalizing systems. It is a provocative gauntlet thrown down
before systemizers of every stripe, an aesthetic performance put on with
smiling fierceness."

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/monroe1.htm