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Re: Kunin reply to A.S.Brown on PF
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I think notion of finding key to this or that VN's work is misleading.
Announcements of finding such key remind me of a squeaky lock being fit on
this or that key in the collection of the master who never cared for doors
or locks, but was versatile enough to make anything he wanted, keys
including. Why anything of value that refuses to be tamed simply must have
an explanation? Secondary role of modern liberal arts education, may be?
Key to VN's phrase or hidden reference is a different story, but Carolyn was
not talking about it here.
- George
>I perhaps overstated the case when I said that VN aped RLS's prose. But he
certainly does make references to the >strange case in Pale Fire. And I
found that among the many red herrings of other literary references, this
key turned >in the lock.
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Announcements of finding such key remind me of a squeaky lock being fit on
this or that key in the collection of the master who never cared for doors
or locks, but was versatile enough to make anything he wanted, keys
including. Why anything of value that refuses to be tamed simply must have
an explanation? Secondary role of modern liberal arts education, may be?
Key to VN's phrase or hidden reference is a different story, but Carolyn was
not talking about it here.
- George
>I perhaps overstated the case when I said that VN aped RLS's prose. But he
certainly does make references to the >strange case in Pale Fire. And I
found that among the many red herrings of other literary references, this
key turned >in the lock.
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