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date: 2025-06-08 18:58:47.60 +00
title: "Mastodon post from June 8, 2025, 114649276586716973"
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post_id: 114649276586716973
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire#Interpretations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire#Interpretations) fascinating takes.

The Botkin theory is very plausible, and these critical essays from Boyd on the Nabokov mailing list is also a fun read (i’m on 3 of 9, made possible by reader mode in my browser, the archive newlines are a little weird).

(you know you are reading some real lore when you see the old "name-l" listserve decorator)

[https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/7641408](https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/7641408)



I picked up the inferno (this hollander one [https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander](https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander) ) off my now two-shelf long to-read, half-read, and probably dnfing pile because I'm about to get to it in the Berkeley philosophy lectures I I'm listening to on walks anymore (Dreyfus mentioned previously, [https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619](https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619)) and it's in the form canto, commentary on canto, canto 2, commentary on canto 2, and so on

ffs