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From: "Tom Rymour" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
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> Dear Don, List and Carolyn,
>
> Carolyn wrote: I can't recall where in Nabokov's work he (or one of his
> characters?) castigates a student who sees symbolism in the green leaves
of
> trees because "green is the color of hope." (Pale Fire?)
>
> It's John Shade in the note to line 172.
>
> I seem to recall an interview (Paris Review 1967? -- Or is it in "Speak
> Memory"?) where VN says the same thing about his own students.
>
> By the by: Has Kinbote ever been clinically evaluated in print by a
> professional psychiatrist, as a paranoid schizophrenic -- or whatever?
What
> would the cheroot-chomping charlatan of Vienna have made of our Charlie?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
From: "Tom Rymour" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
lines) ------------------
> Dear Don, List and Carolyn,
>
> Carolyn wrote: I can't recall where in Nabokov's work he (or one of his
> characters?) castigates a student who sees symbolism in the green leaves
of
> trees because "green is the color of hope." (Pale Fire?)
>
> It's John Shade in the note to line 172.
>
> I seem to recall an interview (Paris Review 1967? -- Or is it in "Speak
> Memory"?) where VN says the same thing about his own students.
>
> By the by: Has Kinbote ever been clinically evaluated in print by a
> professional psychiatrist, as a paranoid schizophrenic -- or whatever?
What
> would the cheroot-chomping charlatan of Vienna have made of our Charlie?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom