It seems to me that multiple personality theory has this weakness - you just don't see what pieces of true gold
you throw away because you underestimate their meaning. Is it because you don't have this emigrant experience yourselves? Sergei
Dear Sergei,
Yes, interesting. But can you see that madness is a kind of exile? Interesting that you use the expression "true gold" since the closest thing to "true gold" in the novel is the "crown jewels." How do you understand the "crown jewels"? In Nabokov's case, for example - - the Russian language? his culture inherited from home and family? And in Kinbote's case? What are Kinbote's crown jewels?
Carolyn