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Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire:
The Lost ‘Father of All Hypertext Demos’?
ACM Hypertext 2011
9th June 2011
Simon Rowberry
Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:All our dream-worlds may come true.Fairy lands are fearsome too.As I wander far from viewRead, and bring me home to you.
One possible new model?
Pale Fire offers the familiar paratext, but with a new dicta…
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader’
504 explicit connections37% notes referring to the poem63% notes referencing other notes69% of all references coming from the index