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Ms Kunin's response to Mr Friedman
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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: Re:response to Mr Friedman
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> Dear Mr Friedman,
>
> Sorry, I misspoke.I didn't mean that you said Sybil's hair had turned
white,
> which you did not. I meant to say that like you, I too can make surmises.
>
> By the way, your quote about an "unretouched likeness" reminds me that
there
> is something odd about photographs in Pale Fire. Why are there no
> photographs of Shade's parents? Why does he have no idea what they look
> like? Is this one of the dogs that didn't bark?
>
> As for the Countess, I'm still tracking the evidence.There is a reference,
> somewhere... Still checking... I must work out a chronology. I'll have to
> get back to you.
>
> typo: God, yes! 582-584 (sorry)
>
> ghost: Retake: "Shade had had another child, whose mother's ghost haunts
Lit
> 202." She, "the second love," is described in lines 576-579 & 585-588 (a
> young blond in "ballerina black"). Kinbote's note on "the other" is one of
> his more helpful ones: he has arranged for Sybil and Shade to run into
"the
> other" at one of his parties, but he is disappointed that "the
confrontation
> [didn't last] more than ten minutes." An awful thought. I must find out
when
> that party took place...
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
>
>
From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: Re:response to Mr Friedman
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> Dear Mr Friedman,
>
> Sorry, I misspoke.I didn't mean that you said Sybil's hair had turned
white,
> which you did not. I meant to say that like you, I too can make surmises.
>
> By the way, your quote about an "unretouched likeness" reminds me that
there
> is something odd about photographs in Pale Fire. Why are there no
> photographs of Shade's parents? Why does he have no idea what they look
> like? Is this one of the dogs that didn't bark?
>
> As for the Countess, I'm still tracking the evidence.There is a reference,
> somewhere... Still checking... I must work out a chronology. I'll have to
> get back to you.
>
> typo: God, yes! 582-584 (sorry)
>
> ghost: Retake: "Shade had had another child, whose mother's ghost haunts
Lit
> 202." She, "the second love," is described in lines 576-579 & 585-588 (a
> young blond in "ballerina black"). Kinbote's note on "the other" is one of
> his more helpful ones: he has arranged for Sybil and Shade to run into
"the
> other" at one of his parties, but he is disappointed that "the
confrontation
> [didn't last] more than ten minutes." An awful thought. I must find out
when
> that party took place...
>
> Carolyn Kunin
>
>
>