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Thanks, dear Ed, for making it easier for everyone to follow the arguments
with only one click.
I think most of DN's comments in the 1998 posting are quite clear ( but why
is he so certain that man did not invent the devil?).For example, when he
states that "it remains dangerous to take VN's chance, or planted, clues at
face value. Many of his writings -- among them, in particular, he said, was
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING -- contain enigmas with no simple or single
explanations".
And yet, if we consider that " the idea that either Shade or Kinbote could
have invented the other barely less absurd than the idea that each could
have invented the other..." ( as B.Boyd referenced in his book on Pale
Fire), and if we then set aside the uncomfortable word "absurd" the second
hypothesis, namely, that each could have invented the other, seems quite
fetching!
Even though I've been criss-crossing clues to crashing against mirroring
characters that enable me to give credence to Carolyn Kunin's ideas, the
prospect of dealing with "split personalities" doesn't seem someething that
VN would care to pursue.
Jansy