Cultural Influences
- A character was named after Kinbote in The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".
- A New Wave music band known as The Kinbotes was active in the early 1980s and produced one self-titled album.
- Elephants in Captivity, a short story by Rajesh Parameswaran from the collection of short stories, I Am An Executioner, has a structure similar to Pale Fire. The annotator acknowledges his debt to Kimbote saying, "... my dear Charles Kinbote, in whose footnotes my own footsteps suicidally follow."
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