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Dear List,
I already asked this question, but in the end of another posting and in
less detail.
Several phrases in the Kinbote's Foreword seem to indicate that
a)it existed on paper b) it is not a "Fair Copy":
"... I alone am responsible for any mistakes in my commentary. INSERT
BEFORE A PROFESSIONAL. A professional proofreader has carefully
rechecked..." (p.17 of Penguin Classics edition, 2000)
"... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
" ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye." (p.25)
What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
Best,
Sergei Soloviev
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I already asked this question, but in the end of another posting and in
less detail.
Several phrases in the Kinbote's Foreword seem to indicate that
a)it existed on paper b) it is not a "Fair Copy":
"... I alone am responsible for any mistakes in my commentary. INSERT
BEFORE A PROFESSIONAL. A professional proofreader has carefully
rechecked..." (p.17 of Penguin Classics edition, 2000)
"... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
" ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye." (p.25)
What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
Best,
Sergei Soloviev
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