JM: "I am following Gogol through the dismal maze of his life and have
selected as basic rhythm of my book the en passant move of the Pawn (
please note this).
(Volodya to Bunny, letter 45, August 9,
1942)
A.Sklyarenko: "She, too, had "known the moves", and had loved the en
passant trick as one loves a new toy, but it cropped up so seldom, though he
tried to prepare those magic positions where the ghost of a pawn can be captured
on the square it has crossed". ( TOoL ,card Two, 15)
JM: Great
cross-reference, A.S. Now I realize why there were two
penciled question-marks, as regards
"Gogol/TOoL" and their basic rhythm or allusional inductions. They simply
indicated redoubled puzzlement.
S K-B [ to AS]: "Your next
mission...Find passages in TOoL that effectively give ANAGRAMMATIC permission to
Vera and DN to override VN’s last
Will...
JM: As
you know, in Oxford and in Bacon, that (the author's I) is the
question.