this was when we were talking about literary preceptors, whose minds we borrow to see with. for frye it was blake. for nohrnberg, my friend says, it’s joyce. for himself, also joyce. and what about you he asked? i told him hesitantly that i’m nohrnbergian, which is plausible but not true. i knew even then. from the very start it has been yours that i see with. amongst other things, you taught me the riddling mode.