Familiarity Breeds Slothrop

[cathy ramirez]

--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>Just pick one. Can you name one symptom or cause
> that
> Burton describes that does not apply to Kinbote's
> condition?<<<
> 
> I see no signs of the 'miseries of scholars:'
> 
> Grief, labour,care, pale sickness, miseries,
> Fear, filthy poverty, hunger that cries,
> Terrible monsters to be seen with eyes.
> 
> No evidence of dotage, madness, loss of liberty,
> overmuch study, envy,
> malice, emulation, covetousness, vehement desires,
> ambition, desire of
> praise, pride, vainglory, suspicion, jealousy,
> discontent, vain
> imaginations, restless thoughts, impatience, etc
> etc.
> 
> And if that is all not proof enough:
> 
> "If an ambitious man become melancholy, he forthwith
> thinks he is a king . .
> ."
> 
> I rest my case.

Again, whatever HH murmered may be omitted, I think. 

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