There is one interesting detail that adds strength to your position.
If we check the "Index" in PF we will find the names "Shade, John Francis, poet and scholar" and "Kinbote, Charles,Dr." ( i.e Mr. Shade and Dr. Kinbote ).
This is one of my arguments. It is not just in the index, Shade is always "Mr" and Kinbote "Dr" (didn't I mention this to you recently?)
At first glance we see a guy riding a bicycle in the image glued on the recovered cover and yet, his bicycle is very peculiar with no pedals and a strange handle-bar with a seat for the elbow. Has anyone explained this "Ex libris"?
There actually were such bicycles - - before pedals were added. In "The General" Buster Keaton rides one - - it's quite a sight!
What did VN mean when, in an interview, he described himself as "a monist"?
Somebody asked him:
You once remarked that you are an "indivisible monist. "
Please elaborate.
Monism, which implies a oneness of basic reality, is seen
to be divisible when, say, "mind" sneakily splits away from
"matter" in the reasoning of a muddled monist or halfhearted
materialist.
I also found this page (Stephan Blackwell's) http://www.ssees.ac.uk/blackwel.htm