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Re: [NABOKV-L] Split personality in PFDear 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
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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
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