Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 25

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 25