NABOKV-L post 0027450, Sat, 5 Aug 2017 07:41:08 -0400

Several of those World Golf rounds don't follow the rules -- only one
letter can change per turn. It seems you're picking up your ball and
moving it to a better lie.

John Crowley

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Mary Ross <maryross.illustrator@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been playing some word-golf in my thesis on Pale Fire, "Art, Alchemy
> and Failed Transcendence - Jungian influences in Pale Fire". Part of my
> argument is demonstrating that Shade, Kinbote and Gradus are three aspects
> of the same person: the Higher Self, Ego, and Lower Self.
>
> I've taken the liberty of making my word-golf anagrams as well as changing
> one letter in each step. Also, each step has meaning within the text.
>
> RAVUS = Gradus
> RAVES = Kinbote
> SHAVE = All 3 (beard disguise, shaving in tub, Gradus kills self with razor
> SHADE = Shade
>
> This could also be:
>
> RAVUS = Gradus
> RAVES = Kinbote
> SHARE = All 3 share an identity
> SHADE = Shade
>
> Here’s are two anagram word golfs which also have meaning at each step:
>
> GRADUS
> D’ARGUS = Alias
> GUARDS = Guards in the Palace
> GRADES = Associated with Gradus
> GRAVES = Death
> GRAVEN = Engraved emblems
> DANGER = Regicide
> DRAGON = Alchemy
> GARDEN = The Gardener
>
> Here is one that changes Kinbote to the King:
>
> KINBOTE
> KINGBOT= aka botfly, a parasite larva (like Kinbote to Shade)
> BOOKING = writing, publishing this book
> BOOTING = a Botkin is a shoemaker
> BETTING = Card games by guards (Nodo)
> NETTING = Butterflies
> RENTING = Botkine is renting Goldsworth’s house
> REEKING = Botkine has halitosis
> TREKING = Botkine’s escape from Zembla
> TREMKIN =Word in Zemblan for “Dream King”
>
> Here is one that changes Gradus to Nabokov (in a way)
>
> RAVUS = Gradus
> RAVEN = Alchemy
> GRAVE = Death
> GAMER = A game player, a trickster
> GAMES = Games, puns, riddles within the book
> MAGUS = Gradus, as Mercurius, is a magus, as is the master conjuror Nabokov
>
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