* In my penciled markings on pg.75 (VN/EW Letters), I jotted down: "TOoL"??  I cannot play chess and this note (resulting from a succession of readings, ie: merely associative) has lost its meaning.  In my ignorance, until now, VN's "Gogol" brought T.S.Eliot's "Four Quartets" (East Coker) to mind, but not as inducing a particular rhythm ("In my beginning is my end. In succession/Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,/Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place..."// "The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters/ Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning."), but indicating time and literary metamorphosing, as it takes place under our eyes.