NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of Malignd
> 
> Nabokov was reported (I think by Dimitri Nabokov) to
> have said that the idea that Kinbote created Shade or
> that Shade created Kinbote was just slightly less
> preposterous than the idea that each had created the
> other.  (I would not necessarily put faith in this
> comment.)
> 

I'm not sure this idea of each creating the other is so preposterous that it
should be dismissed out of hand, given all the reciprocal mirrors and
parallels in PF, with all its delight in pure art -- and paradoxes are not
unknown in VN's fiction....