NPPF: Keith's Shocking Theory (was Preliminary: The Epigraph)

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Tue Jul 15 12:08:22 CDT 2003


>>>I'm not sure if Keith has made this claim, but Kunin has speculated that
Kinbote/Shade are the same person, and the whole of Zembla and King Charles
(and thus Kinbote) is a manifestation of Shade's mental illness stemming
fron a
childhood sexual trauma.  But the Nabokov list is very skeptical...<<<

I knew she had a Jekyll/Hyde theory, but not a sexual trauma theory. I'm
with her on the latter, and open to the former.




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