NPPF That'd be up the butt, Bob [was Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)]

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 5 13:01:40 CDT 2003



s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>> I think such details are worth caring about in Pale Fire [...] Thought
> that
> was why we were reading the book. <<<<
> 
> "The main favor I ask of a serious critic is sufficient perceptiveness to
> understand that whatever term or trope I use, my purpose is not to be
> facetiously flashy or grotesquely obscure but to express what I feel and
> think with the utmost truthfulness and [precision]." --VN

So, is N attributing his facetious flashiness and grotesque obscurity to
his narrators/characters or his critics?



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