It seems when Boyd opens a new door he slams all other doors closed. Such a big deal is made of Boyd's conversion from "Shadean" to "Kinbotean." This means that Boyd doesn't acknowledge the obvious, i.e. the poem "Pale Fire," by the fictional Shade, is "bad." Maybe he thinks it is too carefully composed to be called bad, but parts are undeniably(and purposefully) ugly. The fictional commentator Kinbote is equipped to recognize its ugliness, and that adds a comic element to the text, and entirely different interpretations that Boyd refuses to see. I was glad to read from Boyd all sorts of details that I could never figure out on my own. But its so frustrating that Boyd can't seem to see the "big picture!"