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“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
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