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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Magic of Artistic Discovery in PF
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> The subject of madness in PF has not yet been addressed. If John Shade is
> mad (we're all mad here) then the commentary to the poem takes on another
> possible interpretation. As has been noticed from the beginning,
Kinbote's
> notes do not annotate the poem but do bear some relationship to it.
>
> The form of those notes reminds me of a technique in psychological
analysis
> called free association. If John Shade has gone mad and has been
> institutionalized, could the "commentary" not be a record of his therapy?
> The contradictions of real/fantastic then make some kind of sense. The
notes
> can then be seen as dreams. There are many references to
mesmerism/hypnosis
> in the novel (that trilby et al). Is Shade under hypnosis?
> autoneurypnological?
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Magic of Artistic Discovery in PF
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (14
lines) ------------------
> The subject of madness in PF has not yet been addressed. If John Shade is
> mad (we're all mad here) then the commentary to the poem takes on another
> possible interpretation. As has been noticed from the beginning,
Kinbote's
> notes do not annotate the poem but do bear some relationship to it.
>
> The form of those notes reminds me of a technique in psychological
analysis
> called free association. If John Shade has gone mad and has been
> institutionalized, could the "commentary" not be a record of his therapy?
> The contradictions of real/fantastic then make some kind of sense. The
notes
> can then be seen as dreams. There are many references to
mesmerism/hypnosis
> in the novel (that trilby et al). Is Shade under hypnosis?
> autoneurypnological?
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>