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NABOKOV
Yes
to
our
is foolish? That a fool can be
knowledge.
mad? In Act 3 Scene 6 line
BARD OF AVON
124 a friend says “Lord Ti-
Right, and
mon’s mad”. Does that not
in your book characters who
correlate to your own charac-
are male can be female and
ter Kinbote?
vice versa. There is gender
fluidity between Kinbote and MR. SHADE
Hazel as well as the idea that obviously differentiates be-
as we age we become more tween a character named the
like the opposite sex. fool and the fact that Timon
Mr. Shade seems annoyed becomes mad, how is it that
BARD OF AVON
you can so confidently say
Now set-
the two are the same?
ting aside that idea for a mo-
BARD OF AVON
ment, are there not charac-
sidered to be a mentally ill or
ble, oh I don’t know, things
an insane person, a fool can
like poets or fools?
also be someone who is nei-
NABOKOV I guess you could
ther of sound mind nor ac-
say that; I was going more for
tions.
a madman.
two
are
not
MR. SHADE
Ah but the
so
While
technically a madman is con-
ters in your book that resem-
BARD OF AVON
Since the play
Honestly Will
you have barely scratched
different.
the surface for a real case.
Wouldn’t you say a madman
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