Dear Matthew Roth,

 

This is  small point, but of course I realize that Kinbote ends up in Cedarn
Utana. My interpretation has him incarcerated in a mental institution (or as
he depicts himself, in palace confinement following the Zemblan revolution)
before his escape from Zembla, thence to New York and points North by
Northwest (?).

 

By the way, maybe it's not so small a point - - because here we start to get
into the Escher-like fugue pattern that the chronology of PF sets up. Did
Kinbote escape from Zembla as Tiffany thinks (& mostly so do I) coincident
with Shade's 1957 attack, or after Shade is "shot"? Both seem to be true.

 

Carolyn