Pale Fire (Q1229792)
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novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov
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novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Pale Fire (English)
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20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction - Wikipedia (English)
pheasant (Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto One / (L24)) (English)
Toothwort White (Pieris virginiensis, West Virginia white)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L315)) (English)
bobolink (Bobolink)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L813 / Some kind of link-and-bobolink,) (English)
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Introduction / The centre of distribution of pheasants was originally from China to Malaysia. (English)
L'if, lifeless tree, Yewshade (Yew, Taxus baccata, if(French))(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L501 / L'if, lifeless tree! / L509 / To Yewshade, (English)
brown ament (ament, catkin)((Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L965 / And a brown ament,) (English)
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Triassic (Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto One / (L153)) (English)
Upper Pleistocene (Late Pleistocene) (Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto One / (L154)) (English)
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Frost (Robert Frost)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L426)) (English)
Will (William Shakespeare)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L962) (English)
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / L419) (English)
only begetter (Shakespeare's sonnets, dedication, onlie begetter)(Pale Fire / Contents / Foreword / Immediately after [...] only begetter) (English)
L'if, lifeless tree, Yewshade (William Wordsworth, If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven) (English)
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The Four Quartets / East Coker / II / grimpen (English)
The Four Quartets / Little Gidding / I / sempiternal (English)
Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L368) grimpen / (L372) sempiternal (English)
An Essay on Man / Epistle II / p.21 / Whate'er the [...] / L267 / See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, (English)
Nabokov's Pale Fire and Alexandar Pope / p.103 / While Shade [...] There is [...] as well as a quotation from the Essay on Man in line 419. (English)
If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8) / Part III. From the Restoration to the Present Times / 1827 / "If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven" (English)
swarming in the eyes (floater)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L215)) (English)
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red wop (wop)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L348)) (English)
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A male hand traced from Florida to Maine (weather forecasting)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L408)) (English)
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L’if, lifeless tree! Your great Maybe, Rabelais (death poem, François Rabelais)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L501) (English)
Marat bleed (Jean-Paul Marat, death)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L894) (English)
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Assassination / On July 13, [...] she stabbed him to death in his bath [...] (English)
"to lecture on the Worm," (Symbols of death, cultural depictions of worms)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L505) (English)
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My knight is pinned (chess, tactic, pin)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L661) (English)
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Old Faithful (Yellowstone National Park)((Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L744) (English)
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wonderful machine, Shaved (shaving, razor)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L839, L889) (English)
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anti-Karlist (Tsar, form of state)(Pale Fire / Contents / Commentary / Line 12 / Alas, he [...] anti-Karlist) (English)
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An Essay on Man / Epistle II / p.19 / Vice is [...] / L224 / At Greenland, Zembla, (English)
The Battle of the Books / p.25 / Meanwhile, Momus [...] snowy mountain in Nova Zembla (English)
chtonic (chthonic gods, Greek mythology)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Two / (L370)) (English)
Echo’s fey child (Echo, Greek mythology)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L968) (English)
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The Hally Vally (Kalevala)(Pale Fire / Contents / Foreword / Oh, there [...] ; and a [...] "The Hally Vally" (as she put it, confusing Odin's Hall with the title of a Finnish epic) (English)
Odin's Hall (Valhalla)(Pale Fire / Contents / Foreword / Oh, there [...] ; and a [...] "The Hally Vally" (as she put it, confusing Odin's Hall with the title of a Finnish epic) (English)
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big G (names of God in Christianity)((Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Three / L549 / While snubbing gods, including the big G) (English)
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consonne D'appui (literary consonance)(Pale Fire / Contents / Pale Fire / Canto Four / L967-L968 Maybe my sensual love for the consonne D'appui / L964-L965 / [...] I meant / [...] the cement) (English)
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Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade (born July 5, 1898, died July 21, 1959) during the last twenty days of his life, at his residence in New Wye, Appalachia, U.S.A. (English)
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Zembla, a distant northern land. (English)
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This reminds me of the ludicrous account he gave Mr. Langton, of the despicable state of a young gentleman of good family. “Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town shooting cats.” And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favorite cat, and said, “But Hodge shan’t be shot: no, no, Hodge shall not be shot.” (English)
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
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Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov | Open Library (English)
10 August 2023
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Wikipedia(18 entries)
- arwiki نار شاحبة
- dewiki Fahles Feuer
- enwiki Pale Fire
- eswiki Pálido fuego
- fawiki آتش کمفروغ
- fiwiki Kalvas hehku
- frwiki Feu pâle
- hywiki Գունատ կրակը
- itwiki Fuoco pallido
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jawiki
青白 い炎 - kowiki 창백한 불꽃
- lawiki Pale Fire
- mkwiki Блед оган
- nlwiki Bleek vuur
- ruwiki Бледный огонь
- svwiki Blek låga
- trwiki Solgun Ateş
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zhwiki
微 暗 的 火
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