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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- immigrants
- kings and rulers
- assassination
- american poetry
- american literature
- kings and rulersxassassination
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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From WikiquoteAnd there are things that are hard to talk about—you'll rub off their marvelous pollen at the touch of a word.
What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog?
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly.
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
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