TMOP Chapter 9 - Nechaev

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 17 09:43:07 CDT 2008


David's insight that Nechaev was Pavel's lover
sparked a timeline-positioning insight for me:

Nechaev, whose spirit is Baal, not one of ideas,
but only of anti-ideas, represents Pavel himself
in a psychotic/schizophrenic metamorphosis that
is concommitent upon discovering AF (which is a
case of a male lover, only oneself), as in Kafka's
Metamorphosis, or Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Hell
in all sorts of myth/religion.

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I am lost in first pages. I noticed, but now
cannot find, a page with a typo, so bad that I
stumbled over it, and had to re-read it.
--It was no typo!

The line was D asking A something like:

Did you notice what WAS HE WAS wearing?

And the next line draws attention to WAS:

Was there anything strange....

That is, The "WAS" that was "THERE" above
was strange. Did you notice?

WHY did Coetzee do it? What does it mean?

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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