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A: (2) I faked my own death.
Q: Are you Shade?
A: (2) One of us is a character, and one of us is two.
Q: Are you Charles Kinbote?
A: (1) Yes. (2) Yes.
Q: Did you try to kill yourself?
A: (1) Yes.
Q: Why aren’t you giving me a straight answer?
A: (2) I want you to know that Shade is alive, but I don’t want you to believe it.
Q: Is John Shade alive? Did somebody try to kill him?
A: (2) Page 204: “As in regard to so many fascinating facets of my friend’s past
life, I am not in the possession of particulars…”
Q: Again, that was written by Charles Kinbote. Are you Kinbote? Are you a
Shade?
A: (1) I really don’t think you understand.
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