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One of the most reliable functions for that internalized
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reader is to cue you, me, the actual human readers,
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to notice or feel certain things,
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or (if you are Nabokov)
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to be misled in certain ways.
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Think of the prologue from John Ray Jr.
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which misleads us in reading that novel.
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He's our double,
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but he's there to trick us.
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I don't think that Alex is here to trick us.
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And, just to note how he cues us,
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let's look on 142 and 3.