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Walnuts, kernels and strokes
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In the end, what do we get besides learning that the dead like to play
tricks on the living? Or that sometimes we discern one kernel where two
should have been found?
Jansy
Dear Jansy,
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. But it seems a rhetorical one.
At any rate, I don't wish to comment on the "Vane Sisters" story (I dislike
it) except to say that the original Sybil Vane bears a great resemblance to
Iris Acht. She is to be found in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde,
which along with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (the only story I know that
actually begins with a kinbote) is well worth reading in conjunction with
Pale Fire.
Carolyn
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