Dear George Shimanovich,
How would you explain familiarity of Kinbote-Shade (the later husband of Sybil) with interior of Goldsworth house?
I doubt the existence of the Goldsworth house, the kitten with/without bow and its odd diet (I do suspect a joke or riddle lurks there). I think there is some evidence about this in Shade's statement that the landscape has changed since his childhood, but I don't understand it well enough to say more.
While mostly delusional, Kinbote is astonishingly right in subtle ways. For example, he said this about Pale Fire, the poem: ³I liked it better when expecting less.² I wonder if that is not authorıs appeal. And if not, then why (using one of your prompting figures of speech)? As far as aspiring authors of multi-personality theory of PF go, the burden of proof is on them.
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
Carolyn