Pale Fire Peoples!
\nWelcome to Week 4! A nice long flight yesterday and some quality Father’s Day reading time has me nearly caught up. It seems like once I hit the King’s escape, things really started to move.
\nI was struck this week by two stylistic features this book has in common with Gravity’s Rainbow (perhaps they define the Cornell School): a predeliction for silly names (Gahr?!) and a love for the tangential detail, though where N. spins them out like playful fractals that go on a sentence or three or four, Pynchon was laying down dense-packed multi-paged tangents designed to re-, de-, and cross- wire our brains. (I ‘spose ya could argue that the whole commentary is like a 200+-page tangential detail, so mebbe Nabokov wins that battle after all.)
\nIn related news, I’ve begun to read certain Kinbote passages with the voice of Dr. Evil. (“Physically, he was a sickly bald-headed man resembling a pallid gland.”)
\nNext week:<\/b> We’ve got just two weeks to go (can ya believe that?). To keep them roughly even, this week will be a little on the short side. Let’s meet back up round about the “anonymous bard of the twelfth century,” which is to say, right after the commentary on Lines 681, also known as page 188 in the Everyman’s Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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