NPPF irresolution

[jbor]

on 5/9/03 5:51 PM, jbor wrote:

> I also think that the "solution" that there is no solution is as elegant as
> any. I can see why Kinbote's self-consciousness about the existence of
> "Botkin" would throw a spanner in the works of a lot of the critics who argue
> for this or that "ultimate" reading of who wrote who, and why they would thus
> try and dismiss these details about Botkin which Kinbote drops into his notes
> as excessive or irrelevant. But I think it might also pay to keep in mind the
> fact that most chess games end up unresolved, often elegantly so.

NB also the mirrored players' names and the outcome in that chess match
mentioned in the annotation to line 130:

    They found Beauchamp and Campbell ending their game in a draw.

[Walter] Campbell, Scottish, born 1890, gets a reference and a bit more
biodata in the Index as "K's tutor" (King's? Kinbote's?). Monsieur
Beauchamp, who doesn't, is, I'm assuming, Oleg's tutor.

best