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Re: Hazel's suicide and possible parental responsibility
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Left field? Heck no. But I do have some questions.
I may be mistaken, but isn't the Korean with whom Hazel sits on football
days a former nun, and therefore a women?
The Korean who attends Shade's birthday is a male, and I believe (possibly
irrelevant to this discussion) that he arrives on a bicycle.
I probably have missed the connections between the male Korean and Sybil
Shade.
When you say that the Korean is ³very possibly² her half brother, which
³her² do you refer to, Hazel or Sybil? Do you mean that when Sybil¹s father
was in foreign service he fathered a Korean son?
Or that John Shade, with a life spent largely in the close community of a
college campus, fathered a Korean son without any news of the event getting
out?
What evidence do you have to support the claim that this infrequently
referred to Korean student (who is following Shade¹s course of study) is
³definitely² a homosexual interest of Shade¹s?
Is your claim that this student¹s name is ³probably Caspar² based on your
theory of the names of the other two biblical wizards or ³wise men²
inferred in the book? I must say that if these names are inferred in the
book I can see no reason for it. Can you please remind me what you thought
the name probably was of the gardener Kinbote took an interest in? And the
name of the first wise man it did not really appear as the name of an
actual persona, did it? Was it not in verbal form in the book¹s text?
Always looking forward to your comments,
Andrew Brown
On 11/11/06 12:36 AM, "NABOKV-L" <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:
> To the List,
>
> This will appear to come from left field, and unless someone expresses a
> particular interest I won't bore the rest with the reasoning behind this
> alternate interpretation ...
>
> A possible clue to Hazel's suicide is the the Korean student with whom
> her
> father tells us she sometimes sits. He also is a guest at Shade's
> birthday
> party. There are hints linking this student to both of Hazel's parents.
> He
> is very possibly her half brother and definitely a homosexual interest
> of
> her father's.
>
> He is variously referred to in the story as an oriental prince, son of a
> padishaw, and as an Asiatic potentate. And though his name is never
> mentioned (like that of the head of the Shadows) it is probably Caspar.
>
> Carolyn
>
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I may be mistaken, but isn't the Korean with whom Hazel sits on football
days a former nun, and therefore a women?
The Korean who attends Shade's birthday is a male, and I believe (possibly
irrelevant to this discussion) that he arrives on a bicycle.
I probably have missed the connections between the male Korean and Sybil
Shade.
When you say that the Korean is ³very possibly² her half brother, which
³her² do you refer to, Hazel or Sybil? Do you mean that when Sybil¹s father
was in foreign service he fathered a Korean son?
Or that John Shade, with a life spent largely in the close community of a
college campus, fathered a Korean son without any news of the event getting
out?
What evidence do you have to support the claim that this infrequently
referred to Korean student (who is following Shade¹s course of study) is
³definitely² a homosexual interest of Shade¹s?
Is your claim that this student¹s name is ³probably Caspar² based on your
theory of the names of the other two biblical wizards or ³wise men²
inferred in the book? I must say that if these names are inferred in the
book I can see no reason for it. Can you please remind me what you thought
the name probably was of the gardener Kinbote took an interest in? And the
name of the first wise man it did not really appear as the name of an
actual persona, did it? Was it not in verbal form in the book¹s text?
Always looking forward to your comments,
Andrew Brown
On 11/11/06 12:36 AM, "NABOKV-L" <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:
> To the List,
>
> This will appear to come from left field, and unless someone expresses a
> particular interest I won't bore the rest with the reasoning behind this
> alternate interpretation ...
>
> A possible clue to Hazel's suicide is the the Korean student with whom
> her
> father tells us she sometimes sits. He also is a guest at Shade's
> birthday
> party. There are hints linking this student to both of Hazel's parents.
> He
> is very possibly her half brother and definitely a homosexual interest
> of
> her father's.
>
> He is variously referred to in the story as an oriental prince, son of a
> padishaw, and as an Asiatic potentate. And though his name is never
> mentioned (like that of the head of the Shadows) it is probably Caspar.
>
> Carolyn
>
> Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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