/lit/ - Literature

the pale fire killjoy can stop ruining my threads >:(

>>19191306
did you find any secrets? also can i introduce you to a better literary easter egg hunt?

if i knew this would be the pale fire issue, i would have contributed a piece on my investigations

does anyone have an encompassing picture of pale fire's hidden details? isn't the inclusion of botkin excessive, considering the symmetry of kinbote and shade? how does everything connect?

>>18694753
Thanku. Keep it bumped. Otherwise ill have to repost untill its solved

>>18661298
>https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/boydpf3.htm
i found a boyd article that compiles, adds and expresses some of the things ive mentioned. kinbote and shade's birthday being on the same day must be significant too. (boyd says gradus's birthday is the same day also but i dont know what evidence he has for that)
>Because Pale Fire offers so much already--and of course much more could be said of its limpid inventions and implications--many astute readers like Alter and Pifer feel there is no need to explore further. Yet in doing so they forget the experience and overlook the texture of Pale Fire, the sheer number of its pointed interconnections that seem to intimate a revelation just ahead, to dangle before us what Kernan identifies as "the possibility of absolute meanings if only we could follow and assemble the myriad of resemblances which look like clues to an absolute meaning" (Bloom 114). Pale Fire's echoes and patterns, and especially what Bader calls "all these 'subliminal' connections between the poem and the commentary" (37) can seem about to converge, to interlock, to fit together into a key that will open a door we still cannot see.

>>18663556
>make multiple pale fire threads
>they all die in hours
>mention pale fire in passing in a random lolita thread
>nice long discussion
next time i want to talk about pale fire or ada, im making a bait cunny thread

The placement ended up being kind of all over the place but I still got a lot of stuff in