Carolyn answers my question in relation to a "single-minded" preference for RLS taken as a key-work to interpret PF,
concerned your choice of the "multiple personality disorder" as a solution for
the Shade/Kinbote/Gradus problem.) as: I didn't choose the
solution - - I found it. Are you asking how I found it?
Next she outlines the concluding algebra as "then G=K=S." After Tom
Rymour observed that he remembered "reading that "J&H" was inspired by the true case of the Edinburgh
sociopath Deacon Brodie, a pillar of the Calvinist establishment by day and a
cat burglar by night." she wrote: "Yes, you remember
correctly. RLS wrote a play (1880) about Brodie several years before he produced
J&H."
If the
above connection implies that RLS had a real sociopath in mind when he
wrote J&H, should it also lead us
to conclude that, for you, VN's own fictional "Pale
Fire" would have a real character, such as Brodie, as its point of departure?
That VN had planned to have John Shade= Kinbote=Gradus suffer from this
specific "multiple personality disorder"?
Jansy