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THOUGHTS: A glimpse of Botkin? (Dr. Sutton in PF)
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R S Gwynn responds:
You may be right on this point. Like Kinbote, I am lacking a proper text
to consult right now!
I stand corrected. But what might those two names have been? Anagram
experts?
> R S Gwynn wrote:
>
> >> "Since CK refers to one Dr. Sutton as "Old Dr. Sutton," wouldn't that
>> imply that there's also a young Dr. Sutton who is living in the same
house
>> as his presumably retired father?"
>>
>
>
> I don't believe so. In comment to line 119, the commentator writes "Two
> distinguished medical men, long retired from practice, dwelt on our hill",
> indicating two men both old and retired. Also, he writes that the name
Sutton
> is "a recombination of letters taken from two names". If both men have the
> same name and/or live in the same house, why not say so?
>
>
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You may be right on this point. Like Kinbote, I am lacking a proper text
to consult right now!
I stand corrected. But what might those two names have been? Anagram
experts?
> R S Gwynn wrote:
>
> >> "Since CK refers to one Dr. Sutton as "Old Dr. Sutton," wouldn't that
>> imply that there's also a young Dr. Sutton who is living in the same
house
>> as his presumably retired father?"
>>
>
>
> I don't believe so. In comment to line 119, the commentator writes "Two
> distinguished medical men, long retired from practice, dwelt on our hill",
> indicating two men both old and retired. Also, he writes that the name
Sutton
> is "a recombination of letters taken from two names". If both men have the
> same name and/or live in the same house, why not say so?
>
>
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