Dear Andrew, Jerry, AB, SKB, etc
You addressed both me and Carolyn to ask us to": Please forgive my intrusion here, but
wouldn’t multiple personality disorders be categorized more as forms of
psychosis than neurosis?"
The expert is Carolyn. I have not the
slightest idea about mpd, except from watching American movies.
You wrote to Jerry
Friedman: "I can't convince myself that versipel was meant by VN to
conclude the sequence of morphing comb, shoehorn, spoon." Not even as
a fenomenologically accurate image, but filled with humor about
absent-minded senior citizens?
You seem to see John Shade as a
very sweet scholarly bumbbling guy while "the dying Kibotkin
dreamily emits words to his victim’s wife with the blind automaton-like action
of a possessed worm." Like the botfly ( it seems to have wooed both
of us last night?) but you take it more seriously than I
do. I rather like Kinbote and I even wish it had been he
the author of Pale Fire, not that other mawkish
character.
Anthony Stadlen wrote that in Strong Opinions we
can find "VN's positive statements.. about Shade's
emotional-spiritual life (doesn't sound like what you would say about one half
of a split) and about Kinbote's being a madman who will kill himself shortly
after finishing work on the book." Fortunately he added that "DN
told us that VN denied the single-author theory of "Pale Fire"? and now I
feel free to favour one over the other without feeling guilty towards VN, who
created both...
Stan K-B confessed that he
is convinced that Jansy M and Carolyn K are complementary images of
one
and the same person. Who has ever seen them together in the same room at
the same time? Further, the letters J and C have an undeniable sans-serif
chirality that defies ... (cont. page 666). Oh, dear! What the devil
does he mean by that?
I wish I could speak English as
perfectly as CK and cultivate gorgeous roses - although I wouldn't
like to be as certain of her views as she is about "Pale Fire".
I hope K-B sees me as closer to Kinbote, though.
Jansy