Barry Warren wrote: Thank you,  thank you, Mary Bellino , for so clearly
identifying and  presenting in one place these signs within the novel
establishing  Kinbote's authorship of the forward, commentary, and index.
 He then asked: Will the proponents of various ingenious readings please
respond to Ms. Bellino and explain how their own tortured and selective
readings do or do not take into account this internal evidence?
 

Like B. Warren, I also consider that Mary Bellino's posting was outstanding
in its concision and clarity. Still, she didn't foreword, sorry, forward
theories  against or favoring an integrationistic authorship.
Internal evidence in fiction is simply like diagnosing dilating nebulae to
describe a real illness.
Jansy

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