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The reference to /Smoke/ has been noted before. The only
one I could find with Google is from Peter Davidson, /The
Idea of North/, 2005, p. 110, <http://tinyurl.com/32v3x4> or
http://books.google.com/books?id=uhSrVwX-QiUC&pg=PA110&dq=Turgenevi+Smoke+%22Pale+Fire%22&ei=QTitR5q2H4zGyATm2ZSeBg&sig=oTahXqIccEcYOBiDUeUqZjP9xd0
However, I'm sure I've read it elsewhere. Maybe I'm confusing
it with a comment by Alden Sprowles in "Preliminary Annotations
to Charles Kinbote's Commentary on 'Pale Fire'", in /A Book
of Things About Vladimir Nabokov/, ed. by Carl Proffer, 1974.
Sprowles says all the things Kinbote is reminded of appear
in /Fathers and Sons/; he doesn't mention /Smoke/.
I still think I've read it somewhere. Must be in the
large fraction that I've misplaced of my small collection of
photocopied papers on PF.
Jerry Friedman