... Fire. over. Pale. Fire. In Alfred Corn's My Perspective [September 14], he argues that Pale Fire shouldn't be counted as one of the best 100 gay novels: Nabokov wasn't queer, he says, and the novel has no queer characters. OK, so Nabokov ...
... pale fire sprang up in a light blaze on the top of the watch - tower of the Alhambra . " Confusion ! " cried the renegado , " that fire will put all the guards of the passes on the alert . Away ! away ! Spur like mad , there is no time ...
... pale fire sprang up in a light blaze on the top of the watch - tower of the Alhambra . must be remarkably quick , for her life is passed. duenna was no longer to be seen . " What has become of Kadiga ? " cried the Prin- cesses in alarm ...
... pale fire , and died out instead of breaking into a shower of stars . But the dear souls were none the less fasci- nated ; and , no doubt , where my eyes saw only a pale fleck of grey smoke , theirs gazed upon a magic con- stellation ...
... fire - flowing iron With splendour and terror the black ship ship environ , 79 Or like sulphur - flakes hurled from a mine of pale fire In fountains spout o'er it . 80 And I was laid asleep , spirit and limb , And all my being became ...
... fire - pruned columnar smooth , small flakes , pale fire scars , dead tops , broken open , may be lopsided Transitional trees ovoid , flattening on the top , full and ( 150-250 years ) rounded moderate ; perhaps half the trunk ...
... pale Fire ; Rofin a Cop- per Colour ; Sulphur a blue ; crude Antimony a Honey Colour ; Ivory Shavings a shining Silver , and Pitch a deep dark Colour . But Practice will foon make you expert in these Mixtures , and their due Proportions ...