Yesterday Alexey wrote me:  "There are really three personalities in the tale: Jekyll, Hyde and somebody third - what remains from Jekyll when Hyde appears" (from VN's lecture on RLS, I translate back from a Russian translation). According to your theory, this third personality corresponds to Gradus in PF. In fact, you told me that S = K = G. I was surprised not to see this in your response to Stan.
 
Dear Alexey,

I should probably go back and re-read the lecture on J & H. So the third personality according to Nabokov would be J minus H?

My theory of PF indeed is S = K = G, and what underlies that is S = C, K = C and G = C minus (C−ˆ’).  

Intriguing. Could this be the P. . . F proof?

Carolyn 

p.s. It may not be a fire-proof  proof  - -  let's see who casts the first shot.
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