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Brevity, I know. Ladies and gentlemen, the prosecution has tried and will
continue to try to convince you that Charles Kinbote
was an insane emigrant from Zembla whose tales of
thrilling escapades and daring escapes are just fic-
tions - and, furthermore, that he had no impact on the
death of the dear John Shade. However, even putting
Kinbote’s obvious kingship aside, it is highly unlikely
that his death was not the result of
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ZEMBLAN LAWYER (cont’d)
the murder as described in Pale Fire. Despite his history of health prob-
lems, the numerous people denying details of Kin-
bote’s story, and Kinbote’s many philosophical pon-
derings and displays of friendship that may be misin-
terpreted by an outsider to be signs of severe psy-
chological issues and possibly insanity -
AMERICAN LAWYER
Please, keep going.
ZEMBLAN LAWYER
- despite all this I can show that Shade was in fact murdered.
AMERICAN LAWYER
I’d like to see you try.
JUDGE
(To the American La