On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:53 AM, jansymello wrote: I'll be convinced by your interesting theory after you show Shadian bits and pieces shining thru, or around K
Dear Jansy,
Wonderful - - a potential convert! There are indeed "Shadian bits and pieces shining thru .. K." And Kinbotean bits lurking in Shade as well. I think I can find one of the former on page one. Let me see -- yes, page one, paragraph two:
The short (166 lines) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards. Canto Two, your favorite ....
I argue that this is John Shade addressing Sybil. If not, who is Kinbote addressing? No one has read Pale Fire yet except Shade, Sybil and Kinbote, so to whom is Kinbote talking? I don't at the moment recall another example, I hasten to say before you ask. But there is also a memorable (to me) intrusion of Kinbote's voice into Canto One of the Pale Fire poem:
l. 160 My health improved, I even learned to swim
But like some little lad forced by a wench
With his pure tongue her abject thirst to quench,
I was corrupted ....
The dream you mentioned is the BIGGY of course.
Carolyn