NPPF: Notes C.1-4 - C.42
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Sat Aug 23 08:22:08 CDT 2003
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 10:30, Jasper Fidget wrote:
> C.1-4
> pg 73
> "a bird knocking itself out": Kinbote assumes the bird has not died,
> although this is not stated explicitly in the poem.
And it's important to know this if we hadn't gathered it already. The
bird's survival can be seen (perhaps only retrospectively) as a bit of
foreshadowing.
(or perhaps the bird really is dead :-))
P
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