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Commentator 2: “Yeah I always found that sort of interesting too, because
‘resembled’ implies physical similarities but there he’s talking about how they
both like to ‘twist’ their words.”
Commentator 1: “’He does tend to do that, doesn’t he? Words in general seem
to be sort of a common theme between the two of them, at least their interest in
them. I mean, Kinbote was an English professor and the way Shade puts it, Ha-
zel seemed pretty engrossed in literature herself: ‘Sometimes I helped her with a
Latin text/Or she’d be reading in her bedroom, next’ (p. 46).”
Commentator 2: “Oh yeah I hadn’t even made that connection. I always won-
dered what happened between Hazel and John. For all of the love he seemed to
have for her he still writes about her dying in his poem. I always took that as her
being dead to him in some way.”
Commentator 1: “I’ve always sort of thought that too. But then what could she
have done to bring him such grief?”
Commentator 2: “I-
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