"The difference between Shade and Kinbote is
more in texture and style, than can be derived from
various “keys” planted
here an there." (S.S)
"Can you explain this a bit more? ...My idea
was, simply, that counterpoint and texture (especially as it relates to
different voices in music) seem to be concepts which speak to ("PF" +
Commentary) much more than ("PF") by itself... I'll say that I think that the notion of how we read and re-read PF
has to be examined more closely" countered M.Roth
One
more voice, here added "inter-texturely": Why not examine more
and go beyond "PF and Commentary"?
For example. In
"ADA" we find
Van's treatise on "Texture of Time"and his insight on
the interval between events. Now, ADA begins, on Chapter 1, part One, with:
"All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all
unhappy ones are more or less alike" (a great Russian
writer)
If we should turn
to Pale Fire, Commentary to line 894, when CK quotes JS
denying Zemblan re-semblances ( initially CK had changed the "subject"
saying "all Chinese look alike") we end
with:
"Resemblances
are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and
similar diferences" .
Various voices seem
to be chiming in at various points in a diastema of different
textures along distinct works...