What I had been wondering about, together with the "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.
Jansy
Dear Jansy,
I didn't choose the solution - - I found it. Are you asking how I found it?
If that is the question, I began with the assumption that the solution would be simple - - the more complicated the puzzle, the simpler the solution as a rule. I had two breakthroughs and don't know which came first. Probably the statement that the three major characters in the work were "G, K, S" came first. I read this as a riddle, the solution that I found was:
if K = C (roman alphabet), and S = C (Cyrillic alphabet),
then maybe G = C minus
and then G=K=S.
Carolyn