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Re: Minor points: Surnames and name days
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A correction. I quoted the wrong paragraph while inquiring about the "little parricide" in PF*, wondering why the lines "...a morocco-bound album in which the judge had lovingly pasted the life histories and pictures of people he had sent to prison or condemned to death: ... the close-set merciless eyes of a homicidal maniac (somewhat resembling, I admit, the late Jacques d’Argus), a bright little parricide aged seven ('Now, sonny, we want you to tell us —')..." indicate the young perpretator was John Shade. There must be other clues!
Please, excuse me for such an unfortunate mix up.
Jansy.
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* Jerry Friedman: I didn't remember Carolyn Kunin's suggestion "that John Shade is the young miscreant that was judged by Judge whatsisname (next-door neighbor) with the alphabetic daughters, for having offed his parents when he was but a wee bairn." This runs into problems with the timing. The more important one, probably, is that Kinbote's statement that the little parricide was seven (n. 47-48) would contradict his statement that Samuel Shade died in 1902 (n. 71), which is when John was three or four.
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Please, excuse me for such an unfortunate mix up.
Jansy.
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* Jerry Friedman: I didn't remember Carolyn Kunin's suggestion "that John Shade is the young miscreant that was judged by Judge whatsisname (next-door neighbor) with the alphabetic daughters, for having offed his parents when he was but a wee bairn." This runs into problems with the timing. The more important one, probably, is that Kinbote's statement that the little parricide was seven (n. 47-48) would contradict his statement that Samuel Shade died in 1902 (n. 71), which is when John was three or four.
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