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Kinbote's stay in an asylum
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Dear Matthew Roth,
This is small point, but of course I realize that Kinbote ends up in
Cedarn
Utana. My interpretation has him incarcerated in a mental institution
(or as
he depicts himself, in palace confinement following the Zemblan
revolution)
before his escape from Zembla, thence to New York and points North by
Northwest (?).
By the way, maybe it's not so small a point - - because here we start
to get
into the Escher-like fugue pattern that the chronology of PF sets up.
Did
Kinbote escape from Zembla as Tiffany thinks (& mostly so do I)
coincident
with Shade's 1957 attack, or after Shade is "shot"? Both seem to be
true.
Carolyn
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This is small point, but of course I realize that Kinbote ends up in
Cedarn
Utana. My interpretation has him incarcerated in a mental institution
(or as
he depicts himself, in palace confinement following the Zemblan
revolution)
before his escape from Zembla, thence to New York and points North by
Northwest (?).
By the way, maybe it's not so small a point - - because here we start
to get
into the Escher-like fugue pattern that the chronology of PF sets up.
Did
Kinbote escape from Zembla as Tiffany thinks (& mostly so do I)
coincident
with Shade's 1957 attack, or after Shade is "shot"? Both seem to be
true.
Carolyn
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