NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 3 08:22:17 CDT 2003
--- Don Corathers <gumbo at fuse.net> wrote:
>
> The argument I was trying to make last night on Nabokov coming close to
showing his authorial cards to get us to make the Kinbote/Botkin connection was
almost purely intuitive. To the extent there was any reasoning involved, it was
that since Kinbote ostensibly controls the narrative and wants to conceal his
past as Botkin, Nabokov would have to either contrive to get Kinbote to act
against his own interests (as a self-destructive psychotic might plausibly do)
or otherwise subvert Kinbote's intentions in order to lead us to Botkin. Seemed
to me that was what was happening in the two passages Rob and I were
discussing.
Another possibility is that Botkin is just a "coicidental" false lead throw in
by VN.
David Morris
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