NABOKOV Vladimir - Pale Fire

eport on the work in progress, 238; his recollection of the quays in Nice and Mentone,
240; his utmost courtesy towards his friend's wife, 247; his limited knowledge of
lepidoptera and the sable gloom of his nature marked like a dark Vanessa with gay
flashes, 270; his discovery of Mrs. S 's plan to whisk S to Cedarn and his decision to
go there too, 288; his attitude towards swans, 319; his affinity with Hazel, 334, 348;
his walk with S to the weedy spot where the haunted barn once stood, 347; his
objection to S 's flippant attitude towards celebrated contemporaries, 376; his
contempt for Prof. H. (not in Index), 377; his overworked memory, 384; his meeting
with Jane Provost and examination of lovely lakeside snapshots, 385; his criticism of
the 403-474 lines section, 403; his secret guessed, or not guessed, by S, his telling S
about Disa, and S 's reaction, 417; his debate on Prejudice with S, 470; his discussion
of Suicide with himself, 493; his surprise at realizing that the French name of one
melancholy tree is the same as the Zemblan one of another, 501; his disapproval of
certain flippant passages in Canto Three, 502 2 ; his views on sin and faith, 549; his
editorial integrity and spiritual misery, 550; his remarks on a certain female student
and on the number and nature of meals shared with the Shades, 579; his delight and
amazement at a portentous meeting of syllables in two adjacent words, 596; his
aphorism on the slayer and the slain, 597; his logcabin in Cedarn and the little angler,
a honey-skinned lad, naked except for a pair of torn dungarees, one trouser leg rolled
up, frequently fed with nought and nuts, but then school started or the weather
changed, 609; his appearance at the H------s, 629; his severe criticism of quotational
titles, from The Tempest etc., such as "pale fire," etc., 671; his sense of humor, 680;
his arrival at Mrs. O'Donnell's country house recalled, 691; his appreciation of a
quodlibet and his doubts anent its purported authorship, 727;, his loathing for a person
who makes advances, and then betrays a noble and naïve heart, telling foul stories
about his victim and pursuing him with brutal practical jokes, 741; his not being able,
owing to some psychological block or the fear of a second G, of traveling to a city
only sixty or seventy miles distant, where he would certainly have found a good
library, 747; his letter of April 2, 1959, to a lady who left it locked up among her
treasures in her villa near Nice when she went that summer to Rome, 768; divine
service in the morning and ramble in the evening with the poet finally speaking of his
work, 802; his remarks on a lexical and linguistic miracle, 803; his borrowing a
collection of F. K. Lane's letters from the motor court owner, 810; his penetrating into
the bathroom where his friend sat and shaved in the tub, 887; his participation in a
Common Room discussion of his resemblance to the King, and his final rupture with
E. (not in the Index), 894; he and S shaking with mirth over tidbits in a college
textbook by Prof. C (not in the Index), 929; his sad gesture of weariness and reproach,
937; a young lecturer in Onhava University vividly recollected, 957; his last meeting
with S in the poet's arbor, etc., 991; his discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled,
998; his unsuccessful attempt to save S 's life, and his success in salvaging the MS,
1000; his arranging to have it published without the help of two "experts," Foreword.
Kobaltana, a once fashionable mountain resort near the ruins of some old barracks,
now a cold and desolate spot of difficult access and no importance but still
remembered in military families and forest castles, not in the text.
Kronberg, a snow-capped rocky mountain with a comfortable hotel, in the Bera
Range, 70, 130, 149.
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