NPPF Get Real

[gumbo at fuse.net]

I was addressing
> the issue of whether or not Zembla is a real land within the novel, one that
> John Shade and Chuck K recognized, or if it is a delusional creation of
> Chuck's. Nabokov's comment points towards it being fictionally consensual.


As do the gentlemen at Shade's table in the faculty lounge who have seen photographs of the king of Zembla in magazines and newsreels, and the German visitor who "had the honor of being seated within a few yards of the royal box at a Sport Festival in Onhava..." (265)

Zembla seems unequivocally to be real in the world of the novel. Just not as Charles describes it, probably.

Don 

> 
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
> Date: 2003/09/05 Fri PM 02:50:54 EDT
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: NPPF Get Real
> 
> >>>Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe he compared Zembla to Ultima
> Thule
> and Ultima Thule to Scandinavia, thus the equation.<<<
> 
> There is no such equation of Ultima Thule and Scandinavia.
> Ultima Thule is another fictional far-off land.
> 
> Your initial point confuses the reality out here with the reality of Pale
> Fire.
> I am quite aware that Zembla is Nabokov's fictional realm. > 
>