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Re: THOUGHTs on Botkin, Hodge, Rashomon
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In a message dated 8/11/2010 4:12:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
glipon@INNERLEA.COM writes:
> McCarthy's review reads to me like an authorial plant, (I suspect these
> things were quite common, and maybe still are) especially the line I've
> underlined which seems to speculate, in an assured way, on aspects of
> Botkin(Kinbote)'s relationship with Shade which I find underivable from the book as
> I remember it. Moreover the last paragraph quoted supplies the context,
> somewhat undercutting the full validity of the Botkin/Kinbote equation, that I
> find lacking in VN's draft note for interviews.
>
>
>
McCarthy was once married to Edmund Wilson, was she not? So she and VN
must have known each other.
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glipon@INNERLEA.COM writes:
> McCarthy's review reads to me like an authorial plant, (I suspect these
> things were quite common, and maybe still are) especially the line I've
> underlined which seems to speculate, in an assured way, on aspects of
> Botkin(Kinbote)'s relationship with Shade which I find underivable from the book as
> I remember it. Moreover the last paragraph quoted supplies the context,
> somewhat undercutting the full validity of the Botkin/Kinbote equation, that I
> find lacking in VN's draft note for interviews.
>
>
>
McCarthy was once married to Edmund Wilson, was she not? So she and VN
must have known each other.
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