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From: "Mark Bennett" <mab@straussandasher.com>
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> Well, I don't know. This bit seems to allude, rather obliquely, to
> Shade and Kinbote:
>
> I met a poet from another state,
> A zealot full of fluid inspiration,
> Who in the name of fluid inspiration,
> But in the best style of bad salesmanship,
> Angrily tried to male [sic] me write a protest
> (In verse I think) against the Volstead Act.
> He didn't even offer me a drink
> Until I asked for one to steady him.
> This is called having an idea to sell
>
> Kinbote, to be kind, may be described as "poet from another state"; he
> certainly has an "idea to [angrily] sell" Shade, a "protest" to be
> rendered it verse, which, in the end, he "makes" Shade write; he may
> accurately be described as "a zealot full of fluid inspiration"
> (inspiration of some kind, in any event); and he is a very bad salesman
> of "the best style." Shade rebels against Sybil's domestic Volstead Act
> by sneaking a nip here and there, and Kinbote's nerves needed steadying
> more than Shade's when the two were together. I mean, it's a stretch,
> but not the longest. And I must say, as a life-long native of the
> Golden State, I enjoyed the bit about Vigilance Committees stocking the
> graveyards to vindicate the State's humanity.
>
> Mark Bennett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:24 AM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Pale Fire and R. Frost's "New Hampshire"
>
> EDNOTE Keith McMullen was one of the instigators of the PYNCHON list
> group read of Pale Fire. They ran down a lot of interesting material
> which is archived on-line at both the Pynchon and NABOKV-L websites.
> Well woreth browsing for the PF addict.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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> > >>> I skimmed "New Hampshire" and didn't see anything that persuaded
> > me VN alludes to it in PF, but thought I might have overlooked
> > something. <<<
> >
> > I didn't see anything persuasive either, but perhaps the original
> > poster can illustrate his point?
> >
> >
>
>
From: "Mark Bennett" <mab@straussandasher.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (54
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> Well, I don't know. This bit seems to allude, rather obliquely, to
> Shade and Kinbote:
>
> I met a poet from another state,
> A zealot full of fluid inspiration,
> Who in the name of fluid inspiration,
> But in the best style of bad salesmanship,
> Angrily tried to male [sic] me write a protest
> (In verse I think) against the Volstead Act.
> He didn't even offer me a drink
> Until I asked for one to steady him.
> This is called having an idea to sell
>
> Kinbote, to be kind, may be described as "poet from another state"; he
> certainly has an "idea to [angrily] sell" Shade, a "protest" to be
> rendered it verse, which, in the end, he "makes" Shade write; he may
> accurately be described as "a zealot full of fluid inspiration"
> (inspiration of some kind, in any event); and he is a very bad salesman
> of "the best style." Shade rebels against Sybil's domestic Volstead Act
> by sneaking a nip here and there, and Kinbote's nerves needed steadying
> more than Shade's when the two were together. I mean, it's a stretch,
> but not the longest. And I must say, as a life-long native of the
> Golden State, I enjoyed the bit about Vigilance Committees stocking the
> graveyards to vindicate the State's humanity.
>
> Mark Bennett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:24 AM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Pale Fire and R. Frost's "New Hampshire"
>
> EDNOTE Keith McMullen was one of the instigators of the PYNCHON list
> group read of Pale Fire. They ran down a lot of interesting material
> which is archived on-line at both the Pynchon and NABOKV-L websites.
> Well woreth browsing for the PF addict.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> >
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> lines) -------------------
> > >>> I skimmed "New Hampshire" and didn't see anything that persuaded
> > me VN alludes to it in PF, but thought I might have overlooked
> > something. <<<
> >
> > I didn't see anything persuasive either, but perhaps the original
> > poster can illustrate his point?
> >
> >
>
>