In the end, what do we get besides learning that the dead like to play tricks on the living? Or that sometimes we discern one kernel where two should have been found?
Jansy
Dear Jansy,
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. But it seems a rhetorical one.
At any rate, I don't wish to comment on the "Vane Sisters" story (I dislike it) except to say that the original Sybil Vane bears a great resemblance to Iris Acht. She is to be found in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, which along with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (the only story I know that actually begins with a kinbote) is well worth reading in conjunction with Pale Fire.
Carolyn