James Ramey argues that the line “not text, but texture” suggests that this novel’s use of italics can be used to find its crown jewels hidden in “potaynik.” (15[1])This novel describes how a stint at the Institute for Preparation for the Hereafter and a vision of a “white fountain” during a heart attack inspires a belief that the universe is a “web of sense.” A character in this novel says “I know. You know.” when describing (*) Hazel’s suicide in a lake. This novel, whose title comes from a line from Timon of Athens, details the incompetence of the assassin Jakob Gradus. This novel’s narrator inserts suggestions that he is the exiled king of Zembla (10[1])while commenting on lines like “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain.” For 10 points, Charles Kinbote’s edited and commented version of a 999-line poem by John Shade make up what novel by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■