Re: Conlangs in Literature

J. K. Hoffman scripsit:

> Second, _Pale Fire_ by Nabakov.  The whole book centers around an epic
> poem written about a country that may, or may not, exist in a language
> that may, or may not, be real, by someone claiming to be royalty of said
> country.  I haven't actually read it, yet, but it's in my "pile o' books".
More accurately, the poem "Pale Fire" which is the heart of the book
_Pale Fire_ is in English; the narrative and commentary surrounding it
is also in English, not in Zemblan, though the author of the n & c is
Zemblan, or claims he is.

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He is also a nut (though brilliant), the poem is mediocre and written
by a mediocrity, and has nothing to do with what the King (if that's
really what he is) says it has to do with.

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Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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