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Re: SIGHTING- second-hand Pale Fire
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I was tempted by the price to buy a used copy of the Everyman Library¹s
hard-back PALE FIRE (1992), the one with Richard Rorty¹s introduction. The
book arrived heavily stamped front, back and sides: Please Return to The
Patients¹ Library, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. My fears that it
may have been stolen were soon assuaged by a rubber-stamped notice in large
red CAPS on an inner page:
DISCARDED BY THE PATIENTS¹ LIBRARY, THE ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL, WHITECHAPEL.
I immediately pictured some over-sensitive (censuring &/or censoring?)
librarian deciding that Nabokov¹s Pale Fire was not sufficiently comforting
for sick readers seeking positive proof of an After Life.
Stan Kelly-Bootle.
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