12 Rules for Life (2018), the narrative changes completely. Not since Vladimir Nabokov’s
Pale Fire has there been so much happening in that interesting borderland between the information the reader is given and the information the reader might apprehend; between order and chaos, as Peterson might put it.
Pale Fire is presented as a long unfinished narrative poem by an American poet named John Shade, with a commentary by his colleague and neighbour, Charles Kinbote, an obscure, provincial academic from a strange northern land. But Kinbote appears to have wilfully misunderstood the poem and superimposed his own mad fantasies on to it. Only occasionally do we see Nabokov’s true design: “If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation,” writes Kinbote, “our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
saying crimea is part of russia because most people there speak russian. trump called members of his own administration reportedly stupid for trying to prevent a putin phone call and trump, of course, we know often praises putin. i respect putin. he s a strong leader i can tell you that. i would say putin is a nicer putin that i am. putin is a killer. a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? it would be great if we could get along with russia just so you understand that. it s not terrible, it s good. this is a story donald trump has been fuelling in his decades worth of personal and political links to russia have come out piecemeal which is part of the in evidence a provocative but somewhat hypothetical times article by john shade in new york magazine. this one making waives where chait writes it would be dangerous not to consider the possibility that the summit is less a negotiation between two heads of state than a meeting