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Drs Sutcliff & Clifton
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[N. 119, on Drs. Sutcliff and Clifton] "One had a daughter,
president of Sybil's club--and this is the Dr. Sutton I
visualize in my notes to lines 181 and 1000."
[Now we go to n. 181] "Oh, I saw them all. I saw ancient Dr.
Sutton, a snowy-headed, perfectly oval little gentleman arrive
in a tottering Ford with his tall daughter, Mrs. Starr, a war
widow."
If Kinbote saw Dr. Sutton, why does he say he visualized him?
Is Kinbote telling us that he didn't really see Dr. Sutton, or
the other guests at Shade's party? Or what?
Dear Jerry,
I was hoping someone else would have an answer for you, because I don't, but
this is definitely part of the medicine & psychiatry theme in PF. The names
of the doctors have been scrambled (Kinbote says so somewhere) like
Wordsmith and Goldsworth. It is clearly part of a riddle, but no one seems
to have solved it yet including truly yours,
Carolyn
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