Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013753, Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:15:00 -0400

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JM on music and texture in PF
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> Sergei wrote to all in this list: " In the Foreword by Kinbote there
are
> several "keys" that apparently show that it existed on paper - the
> phrases
> that should be erased but are forgotten by the author of the
Foreword: for
> example (...) Insert before a professional. A professional
proofreader
> etc.... It is very difficult to assume that this is going in
imagination
> of
> somebody. Though it doesn't contradict absolutely certain theories,
it
> restricts the possibilities, and I wanted to attract the attention to

> this.
> "
>
> Not only in the foreword - we may find such references inserted
among the
> commentaries.
> Some were re-read by CK out of their chronological insertion and,
even,
> there are early alterations or inclusion of details in his initial
> commentaries that will only appear or be introduced later, in CK's
future
> notes! (I don't remember where, exactly, but I noticed them first
when
> Kinbote was writing about a letter the King sent to his wife in Nice,
with
> a
> neat reference to Poe's The Purloined Letter and spies: the
chronologies
> were all distorted.)
Jansy

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