NPPF (Commentary) Unreliable Weathercock

[s~Z]

Kinbote has been very successful. Very few people linger with the poem Pale
Fire long enough to see through it. Everyone is in a hurry to focus on
Kinbote and his commentary and how crazy he is and what he has to tell us
about the life of John Shade and to be entertained by that fabulous tale of
Zembla. The commentary gets analyzed to death. The poem is said to have
little worth without the commentary. Even if the commentary is by a madman
or unreliable narrator, the poem can only be validated and understood in
light of the commentary. The reader Is the waxwing slain by the false azure
feigned remoteness of the kinbotepane. John Shade is inspired by versipel.

The source of our word window is a vivid metaphor. Window comes to us from
the Scandinavian invaders and settlers of England in the early Middle Ages.
Although we have no record of the exact word they gave us, it was related to
Old Norse vindauga, "window," a compound made up of vindr, "wind," and auga,
"eye," reflecting the fact that at one time windows contained no glass. The
metaphor "wind eye" is of a type beloved by Norse and Old English poets and
is called a kenning; other examples include oar-steed for "ship" and
whale-road for "sea." Recently we have restored to the 800-year-old word
window a touch of its poetic heritage, using it figuratively in such phrases
as launch window, weather window, and window of opportunity or
vulnerability.

ENTRY: w-
DEFINITION: To blow. Contracted from *we1-; oldest basic form *2we1-. 1.
Suffixed shortened form *we-dhro-. weather, from Old English weder, weather,
storm, wind, from Germanic *wedram wind, weather. 2. Suffixed (participial)
form *w-nt-o-, blowing. a. (i) wind1, from Old English wind, wind; (ii)
window, from Old Norse vindr, wind. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *windaz;
b. vent1, ventail, ventilate, from Latin ventus, wind. 3. wing, from Middle
English wenge, wing, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse vængr,
wing, from suffixed Germanic form *w-ingjaz. 4. Basic form *w-. nirvana,
from Sanskrit vti (stem *v-), it blows. (Pokorny 10. a(e)- 81.)

ENTRY: pan-
DEFINITION: Fabric.1a. vane, from Old English fana, flag, banner,
weathercock; b. Germanic compound *gund-fann- (see gwhen-). Both a and b
from Germanic *fann. 2. Extended form *panno-. pane, panel, from Latin
pannus, piece of cloth, rag. (Pokorny pn- 788.)

above from
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Kinbote is so transparent that while you're reading through him you can get
yourself slain.