Starting Pale Fire has been much easier to read through then Lolita for me.But again i have had to stop myself and re read certain parts of the commentary. i think i have started thecommentary three times already.... but i just find myself reading and then getting lost. obvioulsy because Kinbote, is well CRAZY! but even though he is crazy, the way he writes and assumes all that shade wrote is about him is very entertaining.... and very comical when i sit back and think about how he is able to be so self involed.
After reading through most of the classes papers. i really enjoyed reading Jareds. He had the same type of focus that i did and brought up some great i deas and made me realize, that well, i didn get deep enough or narrowed down enough in my short paper. but that is just a problem i have when writing papers... need to work on that! : )
today in class we talked about Nabokovs definition of art, which is BEAUTY + PITY
i have been thinking about it, and it seems to contradict itself in my mind, but i guess it all depends on what one believes is pity and what one believes is beauty. just like art, these words are very subjective and no one person can say that a piece of art is the best.. just like no one can say that a certain type of beauty is the only type of beauty and so on for pity.. i need to think a little more on this and figure out what i find beauty and pity to be...
