hodge podge

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

EBURNS at ap.org writes:

[re `Hodge shall not be shot']

> 1. Unless my sodden brain has finally utterly failed, the quote about Hodge
> the cat's unshootability is the epigraph for Nabokov's PALE FIRE.

I say (with Meredith) of the above-mentioned epigram with reference to
Kinbote and maybe also Nabokov

    Let this be offered as his epitaph
    Through very love of self himself he slew.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five