This is so well done. Please make more.

What in the absolute fuck. Thanks?

Wow!!! Such an incredible video, really took me on a journey and recontextualized my reading of the book. I can't wait to see what you guys do next

amazing video i cried for real thank you´s from mexico city :)

I just finished this last week this video was recommended to me at the perfect moment

Bro uploaded one video, and decided he was done with it

This is what I need!!!

I admit that the "intentional murder" of Shade by Gradus, who was prosecuted by Goldsmith, got past me. I thought that it was a botched assassination as Gradus was incapable, but your analysis of Botkin living in Judge Goldsmith's house makes sense especially with the quotation that Gradus actually knew the place. Thanks!

This is probably my favourite book, ever. You guys made it an even more rich post-read experience and I can't thank you enough! Hope you're both doing well and can't wait for more content ;)

I did read this book straight through and got most of it. (Except, as a former indexer, I didn't want to analyze one more index!)

The cubixology scientific article is funny... 😂 ... Is that true though? If not that is very ingenious!

Amazing! Thank you.

Just realized this is the origin story of Professor X.

Alright, I’ll read it again, dammit

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wow @ the song at the end!!

Amazing

Such a amazing video. Hope you post more!

Casually drops somes of the best literally analysis out there, refuses to elaborate, leaves. What did they mean by this? Are they waiting for blade runner 3????

Excellent! I love this book, and I've never found a good video on it until today. Thanks a lot. I hope you will continue running this channel!

Wonderful video, you do the book a lot of justice and that little nod to alternative story telling and how this book is a prime example of it really wasn't expected but it was appreciated!

Lovely video, and well done. Excited to se what else you get up to.

This is such a brilliant videa, it really explained so much that I could not pick up in my one read of pale fire. I just have one question... What did you think of the alternative lines in the draft that Kinbote presents, that have more explicit allusions to Zembla? Do you think he made those up or do you think Shade wrote those maybe just to humour Kinbote?

Obviously, it's all about me... 😵‍💫

I think this channel is gonna get me into literature. Oh no

Something terrible happened to German when Adolf Hitler came to power. The same thing happened to Chinese and Russian when Mao and Stalin took over respectively.

A language can turn bad and decay and infect its users. You cannot love a festering language.

Brilliant :)

Greetings from Auckland. Loved this video. Subscribed.

@___________uncompetative: No, it’s to do with the brilliance, wit and complete originality of the novel. Some of us like that sort of thing. The fact that Pale Fire was such a gloriously unexpected follow-up to Lolita is merely the vodka-soaked cherry on the multi-layered cake.

To those who haven’t yet read the index… the Crown Jewels are hiding there in plain sight.

Excellent work - chapeau!

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Superb. The best analysis I’ve ever read or viewed about my favourite novel. So good that this is the first and probably the only comment I’ve ever made on KZbin. Absolutely wonderful!

Please make more videos

This channel really dropped one of the best literary analyses on KZbin and disappeared from the face of the earth

Incredible analysis, even better song

I love this format of video essay, please make more !

Feels like Mulholland drive

What's to solve? Nothing there is hidden. Most representative of this Nothing, Transparent Things best illustrates the warp and weft, the perforated matrix through which may or may not be seen a meaningful prospect. Pale Fire was opaque to me the first time I read it, but I hadn't read it right. Second time, I looked at what was there, forward, in reverse and cross-referencing all the while. Third I listened to it read. That's when I found it hilarious. For me the meaning of it all is the hysteria of the commentator and the hilarity of it all. Hilarity is the most natural response to many of Nabokov's cruel machines.

Nice. I'll call this video a good start, and forget that Shade and Botkin are the same entity.

How do I constantly listen to that little mastpiece that ends the video?

Great work!

Pale Fire also contains an in-joke reference to "hurricane lolita", you get it or you don't.

The writer in masterful English, Vladimir Nabokov ( 1899 - 1977 ). He also wrote many other books.

I read Pale Fire first in 1985 and most recently in 2023, and the novel has aged less than I have. The pathological narcissism of the narrator is even more ingeniously and entertainingly obvious than originally. 'Zemla', a ' distant northern land'.

Thank you so much! Having english as a second language, I found this much more difficult than Lolita. Didn't stop Nabokov though : ) Speak, Kimbolt!

i wonder if it is correct that Charles was entirely unimportant to Shade. he puts him next to Baudelaire and Swift after all, so he must regard him as some sort of great talent trapped in a decaying mind. it is impossible to know with certainty, as the book is fed to us through the narrator's distorted lens, just how Shade saw Charles. We saw him get annoyed with the odd fellow at several points, yes, and not invite him to social outings (he is delusional after all, and wouldn't get along with most), but I'd prefer to believe that he still saw in Charles a like. A like that was, of course, less of a like for each piece of him his madness warped, but a like nonetheless. (this is all based upon the speculation that the unfilled note refers to Charles, and is not just a placeholder until Shade could find a perfect third poet/author to put in place of that empty space)

Reading it on mini pad is the best! Can search names, words, definitions and I can mark up pages with scribble, highlights and notes. It’s quite the Meta experience doing exactly what Kinbote that nutcase is also doing.

google must be spying on me. Not after had I just finished reading Pale Fire on my kindle do I pick up youtube and a video appears in my feed about it!