tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-599040483549999145.post5011909646512722560..comments2022-09-07T00:30:56.012-06:00Comments on la fleur épuisée: just another out-of-print flower: a full and good life (with plenty of writing)cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067443075153048875noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-599040483549999145.post-85778335462209520602008-06-29T07:58:00.000-06:002008-06-29T07:58:00.000-06:00“The evening light is pale …”Following your recomm...“The evening light is pale …”<BR/><BR/>Following your recommendation, I have begun Pale Fire/Vladimir Nabokov/1962. Ex ante, had I not known that Pale Fire is considered a “masterpiece” and your giving the work, a constellation, of five stars, in starting I would be concerned.<BR/><BR/>I thought your commentary on the work especially cogent, in which you opine that it is not the finished work that is of special merit, the denouncement, being but an afterbirth or shadow of the higher metaphysical state reached by the scribe in the process of bring forth the work – hence Pale Fire. Kudos…<BR/><BR/>I need some definitional guidance and seek your assistance. Written in English, in the United States, by a Russian, is Pale Fire considered American Literature?<BR/><BR/>I began my reading of Pale Fire while getting a pedicure at the nail shop near the Publics where I shop. Envision – me with glasses, sartorial, perusing Pale Fire, while a young Vietnamese girl catered to my whim. I opted out on polish, but had I, I might of considered the violet/pink hue that you use when grading papers.robert dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00936949805517287454noreply@blogger.com