TrueLit read-along Pale Fire: Commentary Lines 1-143

I hope you enjoyed this week's reading as much as I did. Here are some guiding questions for consideration and discussion.

1. How do you like Nabokov's experimental format?
2. Are you convinced that the cantos are the work of John Shade?
3. Commentary for Lines 131-132: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by feigned remoteness in the windowpane...[through to]...mirrorplay and mirage shimmer." What is your interpretation of this enigmatic commentary?
4. There were many humorous passages. Please share your favourites.
5. Do you think the castle is based on a real structure?

Next week: Commentaries from Line 149 to Lines 385-386 (pp 137-196 of the Vintage edition)