On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Jansy wrote: ... Thomas Karshan's introduction to his edition of V.Nabokov's "Selected Poems," where he writes: "... many readers have been led to believe that Shade and Kinbote are two opposite facets of the same person."
I would kiss you, if you weren't so far away! All these years I've been led to believe I was some eccentric little old lady from Pasadena cruising Colorado Blvd on the wrong side of the street by my lonesome ~ and now you tell me that a parade has been forming behind me? I couldn't be more pleased.
I am off today to the Ojai Festival, which I just heard on the radio last night, was a great favorite of our other Russian master of MisDirection, the great Stravinsky (if Richard Taruskin's theories are correct). I will be incommunicado for a week, but what a lovely send-off - spasibo bolshoe and GLORY HALLELUJA!
Carolyn
p.s. By the way, nota bene the subject line, it contains the initial (in both meanings) clue I used to solve the puzzle ten years ago: the Index states that the three main characters are to be designated as C, K, and S
cyrillic C = latin S, or C = S
latin C = German K, or C = K
therefore (tada) K = S