In a message dated 8/31/2010 6:22:54 PM Central Daylight Time, Rsgwynn1@CS.COM writes:

Another thought: when Shade says that he may have guessed Kinbote's "secret," he may be referring to the fact that Kinbote is the disgraced Botkin, not Charles X.


Well, I should have said that Shade realizes that Kinbote is not the exiled king of Zembla in any sense except the delusional/metaphoric one.
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