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solving for G, K, SCarolyn answers my question in relation to a "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.) as: I didn't choose the solution - - I found it. Are you asking how I found it? Next she outlines the concluding algebra as "then G=K=S." After Tom Rymour observed that he remembered "reading that "J&H" was inspired by the true case of the Edinburgh sociopath Deacon Brodie, a pillar of the Calvinist establishment by day and a cat burglar by night." she wrote: "Yes, you remember correctly. RLS wrote a play (1880) about Brodie several years before he produced J&H."
If the above connection implies that RLS had a real sociopath in mind when he wrote J&H, should it also lead us to conclude that, for you, VN's own fictional "Pale Fire" would have a real character, such as Brodie, as its point of departure? That VN had planned to have John Shade= Kinbote=Gradus suffer from this specific "multiple personality disorder"?
Jansy
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If the above connection implies that RLS had a real sociopath in mind when he wrote J&H, should it also lead us to conclude that, for you, VN's own fictional "Pale Fire" would have a real character, such as Brodie, as its point of departure? That VN had planned to have John Shade= Kinbote=Gradus suffer from this specific "multiple personality disorder"?
Jansy
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