"Doctor Kinbot?" he asked, uncertain. I smiled. "Kinbote," good sir, the o is long, like das Boot in German..."
Alas, this is not from Pale Fire, but from Charles Kinbote's (Jeff Edmunds') novel (available in Zembla) Silvery Light: Vladimir Nabokov's Original Life.
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