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Re: CK's response to JF's response to CK
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In a message dated 11/10/2006 00:41:46 GMT Standard Time,
chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
I'm still having trouble with someone (Shade? Kinbote?) musing to himself
and presenting it as a conversation with his other personality, or with the two
personalities calmly discussing the afterlife (for example).
I can think of at least one other literary example of this - - isn't
Dodgson's Alice forever arguing with herself when there are no animals about to talk
to?
Hurrah! Now we're getting there. Permanently longing to define the links
between LC and VN, I started to re-read Wonderland this afternoon. And found
this, Chapter One:
Alice "generally gave herself very good advice ... and once she remembered
trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet
she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of
pretending to be two people".
My apologies for butting into this intensely engaging exchange of views.
Charles Harrison Wallace
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