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I want to add few points to Sergei's in reference to CK's view:
1) When Shade says to Kinbote "Why must one always quote St. Augustine
to
me?" did he really talk back to his split self. How italic.
2) VN had really good time writing PF - we all know that. He made it
very
strong and convincing at the core but left some ends for us to pull or
let
loose. If we pull and are not careful then our borrowed prejudices speak
louder then author's own convictions. I sense him laughing somewhere
when we
do. To pull or not to pull - that is the question.
3) Isn't it a sign of modernity not to accept unanswered questions?
- George
>Concerning the hypothesis of split personality, I am not
convinced at all, at least, I think it should not be taken
so easily, almost as self-evident, to me it looks rather as
a trap (one of many) prepared by Nabokov, and I easily
imagine how he could ridicule psychiatric zeal in the interpretations
of the PF.
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1) When Shade says to Kinbote "Why must one always quote St. Augustine
to
me?" did he really talk back to his split self. How italic.
2) VN had really good time writing PF - we all know that. He made it
very
strong and convincing at the core but left some ends for us to pull or
let
loose. If we pull and are not careful then our borrowed prejudices speak
louder then author's own convictions. I sense him laughing somewhere
when we
do. To pull or not to pull - that is the question.
3) Isn't it a sign of modernity not to accept unanswered questions?
- George
>Concerning the hypothesis of split personality, I am not
convinced at all, at least, I think it should not be taken
so easily, almost as self-evident, to me it looks rather as
a trap (one of many) prepared by Nabokov, and I easily
imagine how he could ridicule psychiatric zeal in the interpretations
of the PF.
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