VL is apparently *not* about WORK
Tim Strzechowski
dedalus204 at comcast.net
Fri Aug 29 19:27:09 CDT 2003
Well, I know you can't be suggesting that merely because a famous person
boiled down a complex literary work into a clever, simple sentence it does
any justice whatsoever to understanding that literary work.
I'm not sure what the repeated hammer reference is about. I assume I missed
a joke or something here.
But the fact that Kinbote (a literary invention) does it, too, says
something about his personality, his perception of literature and its
complexities, his assumptions about readers, and the readers who fail to
recognize (or at least question) its significance.
Tim
Terrance:
[...]
>
> Doesn't Kinbote tell us what Canto three or is it Canto two is about and
> that it is OUR favorite?
>
> How in hell does he know it's our favorite?
>
> Or is he talking to us?
>
> Apparently.
>
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