NPPF--commentary--615--two tongues

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>About all I notice here is that the English-Russian combination is the only 
>one mentioned more than once and that "American and European" is not a 
>combination of languages. One's most immediate thought might be that K is, 
>like Nabokov, a Russian and European living in America and writing in 
>English. Good a guess as any I think.

Kinbote thinks the "two tongues" refers to language, but I can't see why 
Shade would make this reference.  It seems to me that two tongues evokes a 
sinister image, like a forked tongue of a serpent, one fork for invading 
each lung.  Very sexual overtones in this image too.

Ghetta

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