In a message dated 2/27/2012 10:18:27 AM Central Standard Time, jansy@AETERN.US writes:
JM: I think this is a very good line of argumentation, considering Quilty "as an invention within the invention" (very much like Kinbote and Gradus) and the conclusion that Quilty's murder is figurative. Besides psychologically "exorcizing his own demon," he could be using other psychic defense mechanisms such as refusal, splitting, projection.
So HH wrote the Foreword under the pseudonym of John Ray, Jr., Ph. D., and then conveniently died in prison a few days before his trial for the figurative murder of CQ? More meta- than this fiction needs, I think.
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