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| | Amazon.com: Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.: Books: Brian Boyd |
 | | Pale Fire - that book of mirrors and riddles, the first to acknowledge that T.S. Eliot spelled backwards is "toilets" has finally met a brain'd boy clever enough to come up with many of the solutions to the most puzzling of novels and generous enough to share them in readable prose with others. |
 | | After reading Pale Fire twice, I naively thought that i understood it (yes that Bodkin in the University was suspicious, and yes the existence of internation thug Gradus i had previosly questioned) but i was only approaching the intitial layerings of this beatifully layered world. |
 | | In a now-famous article, Mary McCarthy called Pale Fire "a jack-in-the-box, a Fabergé gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers..." But she also thought it was a thing of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. |
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