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AMERICAN LAWYER
The defense will continue on this path of assumptions and weak evidence
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ZEMBLAN LAWYER
Weak?
AMERICAN LAWYER
- by calling upon outside witnesses. One such case is that of a renowned
Oxford professor who vaguely thought he recognized
Kinbote as the Zemblan king, despite Kinbote himself
having denied these allegations in his own text! See
for yourself.
(He replaces it with another poster board, which reads:)
Page 265: "... all bearded Zemblans resembled one another ... the name
Zembla is a corruption ... of Semblerland, a land of
reflections, of "resemblers" ..."
Clearly, before Shade’s death and the theft of his poem, Kinbote never
made any public claims of royalty to anyone.
ZEMBLAN LAWYER
Of course not; he was in hiding!
JUDGE
Order!
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