NPPF: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

[jbor]

on 23/8/03 12:30 AM, Jasper Fidget wrote:

> pg 81
> "control exercised upon my poet by a domestic censor and God knows whom
> else": K again implies that Sybil has coerced her husband into removing
> Zembla references from his poem.  The "God knows whom else" is interesting,
> though -- what might K be thinking of?

I think it goes back to Kinbote's suspicion, mentioned in the previous
paragraph, that "his colleagues", as well as Sybil, might have given Shade
"advice" about what to put into and leave out of the poem. Partly it
confirms Kinbote's paranoia about Hurley and the other academics at
Wordsmith continually bad-mouthing him and undermining him, but it's also
his way of justifying to himself and the reader the way in which Shade was
convinced or coerced to "deliberately and drastically drain [...] every
trace of the material" relating to Zembla and Charles the Beloved which
Kinbote had "contributed" to the composition.

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