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unusual facts about Pale Fire



Bobolink

The bird is also one of the many important ornithological references in Vladimir Nabokov's John Shade's poem "Pale Fire" in the novel of the same name.

Index card

Vladimir Nabokov wrote his works on index cards, a practice mentioned in his work Pale Fire.


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Charles Kinbote

Mary McCarthy, in her 1962 New Republic essay "A Bolt from the Blue" (in which she classed Pale Fire "one of the great works of art of the century") identified the book's author as Professor V. Botkin.