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Pale Fire

Pale Fire

I loved this. It was high enough art that I could tell I was missing some references, but good enough art to be immensely enjoyable on an unfamiliar read. The kind of book you shouldn’t read much about without spoiling anything.

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Foreword

Beginning a salad, was to him like stepping into sea water on a chilly day, and he had always to brace himself in order to attack the fortress of an apple.
Page 18, Location 159
for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
Page 25, Location 256

Commentary

boarding a new train of thought,
Page 68, Location 775
I have no means to ascertain at the present time which of these is referred to here but suspect that our poet simply made up this Case of the Reversed Footprints.
Page 69, Location 778