Pale Fire can be very engaging but then also very obscure…
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Pale Fire can be very engaging but then also very obscure in parts as well
Like, what does this even mean???
"See it and condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry--or a long poem, alas--with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past-" Okay, following so far. "...Such titles possess a specious glamor acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick."
I just could not possibly understand what Kinbote is trying to say despite reading this passage over and over and over again...
#entertainment
Like, what does this even mean???
"See it and condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry--or a long poem, alas--with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past-" Okay, following so far. "...Such titles possess a specious glamor acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick."
I just could not possibly understand what Kinbote is trying to say despite reading this passage over and over and over again...
#entertainment
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