> Sergei wrote to all in this list: " In the Foreword by Kinbote there are
> several "keys" that apparently show  that it existed on paper - the
> phrases
> that should be erased but are forgotten by the author of the Foreword: for
> example (...) Insert before a professional. A professional proofreader
> etc.... It is very difficult to assume that this is going in imagination
> of
> somebody. Though it doesn't contradict absolutely  certain  theories, it
> restricts the possibilities, and I wanted to attract the attention to
> this.
> "
>
> Not only in the foreword -  we may find such references inserted among the
> commentaries.
> Some were re-read by CK out of their chronological insertion and, even,
> there are early alterations or inclusion of details in his initial
> commentaries that will only appear or be introduced later, in CK's future
&g t; notes! (I don't remember where, exactly, but I noticed them first when
> Kinbote was writing about a letter the King sent to his wife in Nice, with
> a
> neat reference to Poe's The Purloined Letter and spies: the chronologies
> were all distorted.)

Jansy