Jerry Friedman replies to Matthew Roth:

 

I'll agree that Salter's story of Sally Beauchamp is
closer to the MPD theories of /Pale Fire/ than anything
we've seen yet, since it has personalities fighting for
control.  There still seems to be a very big step--one
personality claiming to be a real neighbor, recounting
conversations with the other two, knocking over garbage
cans, and so forth.  So I wouldn't say "roughly similar".
You and I seem to be seeing different similarities and
similar differences.

 

I can't find the evidence that Monsieur Beauchamp is
Oleg's tutor.  He certainly could be, but he could be
Prince Charles's French tutor or wrestling coach or
something.  Unless I'm missing a clue.

 

If the NOJ had come out, I'd ask whether you mean
Kinbote takes control at a gunshot in his imagination,
not, as I first thought you meant, a fictionally real
gunshot.

 

Jerry Friedman