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697	berm Flat surface atop an earthen dam; this, evidently, is a "man-made" lake.	Titlepage Part I Notes I Part II Notes II Part III Notes III Part IV Notes IV Part V Notes V Part VI Notes VI Part VII Notes VII Part VIII Notes VIII Part IX Notes IX Part X Notes X Part XI Notes XI Part XII Notes XII ©, Acknowledgments The Author

698	a house On Highland Road. See note to line 736.

699-705	Bright...binoculars See note to line 736, and Pale Fire.

708	rake See line 267.

724	LCD Liquid Crystal Display. See note to line 37. My own watch (actually analog; stopped) glowed on the bedside table: pale greenish numerals and hands like dismantled calipers. I exhaled. In the next room, the liquid clock dripped on.

727	night takes lawn Or yawn. (Excuse me.) Your move:

736	highland road Vladimir and Véra Nabokov sublet 623 Highland Road in Cayuga Heights, New York in August, 1951; after many moves, they again occupied a house on Highland Road, number 880, in February 1957. According to Brian Boyd in his Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, the latter house contributed many details to Nabokov's Pale Fire. At 880 Highland Road, V. Nabokov worked hard on his translation of Eugene Onegin. A year later, the Nabokovs moved to 404 Highland Road, their last American address. There, having completed his translation, with its voluminous notes (partially reflected in the [introduction, poem, commentary, index] format of the novel), Vladimir Nabokov worked on Pale Fire.

742	VIVID BALKAN MOOR. See note to line 22.

746	AVOID RIM. B. N. OVAL. See note to line 22.

756	MAD VIM. RIVAL BOOK! See note to line 22.


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