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It has been completely reset in a typeface designed for easy reading, and was printed from new film.  \nPALE FIRE  \nA Berkley Book / published by arrangement with G. P Putnam's  \nSons  \nPRINTING HISTORY  \nG. P Putnam's edition published 1962  \nBerkley Medallion edition / June 1968  \nFifteenth printing / December 1982  \nSixteenth printing / April 1984  \nAll rights reserved.  \nCopyright (c) 1962 by G. P Putnam's Sons.  \nThis book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or anyother means, without permission.  \nFor information address:  \nG. P Putnam's Sons,  \n200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016.  \nISBN: 0-425-06238-4  \nA BERKLEY BOOK (r) TM 757,375 Berkley Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016.  \nThe name \"BERKLEY\" and the stylized \"B\" with design are trademarks belonging to Berkley Publishing Corporation.  \nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \nTOVÉRA  \n“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. \"  \nJAMES BOSWELL, the Life of Samuel Johnson  \nCONTENTS  \nForeword 1  \nPale Fire A POEM IN FOUR CANTOS  \n15  \nCommentary 50  \nIndex 285  \nFOREWORD  \nPale 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. The manuscript, mostly a Fair Copy, from which the present text has been faithfully printed, consists of eighty medium-sized index cards, on each of which Shade reserved the pink upper line for headings (canto number, date) and used the fourteen light-blue lines for writing out with a fine nib in a minute, tidy, remarkably clear hand, the text of his poem, skipping a line to indicate double space, and always using a fresh card to begin a new canto.  \nThe short (166 lines) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards. Canto Two, your favorite, and that shocking tour de force, Canto Three, are identical in length (334 lines) and cover twentyseven cards each. Canto Four reverts to One in length and occupies again thirteen cards, of which the last four used on the day of his death give a Corrected Draft instead of a Fair Copy.  \nA methodical man, John Shade usually copied out his daily quota of completed lines at midnight but even if herecopied them again later, as I suspect he sometimes did, he marked his card or cards not with the date of his final adjustments, but with that of his Corrected Draft or first Fair Copy. I mean, he preserved the date of actual creation rather than that of second or third thoughts.There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings. We possess in result a complete calendar of his work. Canto One was begun in the small hours of July. 2 and completed on July 4. He started the next canto on his birthday and finished it on July 11. Another week was devoted to Canto Three. Canto Four was begun on July 19, and as already noted, the last third of its text (lines 949-  \n999) is supplied by a Corrected Draft. This is extremely rough in appearance, teeming with devastating erasuresand cataclysmic insertions, and does not follow the lines of the card as rigidly as the Fair Copy does. Actually, it turns out to be beautifully accurate when you once make the plunge and compel yourself to open your eyes in the limpid depths under its confused surface. It contains not one gappy line, not one doubtful reading. This fact would be suffic","cbCaifuRM2qVTpFb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifuRM2qVTpFb","pdf",718370,306,"English","# Foreword\n## Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos\n## Commentary\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is Pale Fire’s poem structure?\",\"answer\":\"The work contains a poem in heroic couplets, 999 lines divided into four cantos.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Foreword describe the manuscript?\",\"answer\":\"The Foreword says the poem’s text was kept on index cards with headings reserved in pink and the poem written on light-blue lines, using fair copy and corrected draft distinctions.\"},{\"question\":\"What disputes does the Foreword address?\",\"answer\":\"It counters public claims about the manuscript’s disjointed drafts and challenges the idea that Shade’s four-part design was only a small fraction of a larger plan.\"}]","Pale Fire - A Poem in Four Cantos - Foreword, Commentary | PDF",471]