R E A D P A L E F I R E

R E A D
P A L E
F I R E

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w-what if I don't want to?

Just gave my senior seminar on it.

I'm about halfway through and loving it

The whole format of the book is like drinking a glass of undiluted lemon juice. It's unimaginable that a commentator could fuck somebody's work up so brutally, but I'm sure it happens

What was Blade Runner's deal in having this book as a plot point when Pale Fire itself is a wacky comedy book?

L I K E
L O L I T A
A N D
T H E D E F E N S E
H A K O K O V
H A D
T O
S T E A L
T H E
I D E A

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It was K's favorite book; he's a man of intellect or more precisely he doesn't waste time watching film or consuming lesser mediums; he's not like you, the viewer

Kinbote thinks the poem is about him as an exiled king of a crystal land, when in reality he's just a loser gay academic. K(inbote) thinks similarly with the legend. He also consumes quality literature and likely thinks relatively highly of himself, when really it's just his assigned baseline, like Roy Batty with his "what it is to be a slave" bit. It's this big emotional monologue as he drifts off into death, but Leon said the same thing while fighting for his life.

It is something like an ego test. If You ego starts to crumble when reciting those words, that is no bueno for a replicant, because he should not be having an ego at all. I think smth like that was the explanation.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure of the windowpane
I was the smudge of ashen fluff--and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.

Pale fire is kino and if you haven't read it, you are not patrician