NPPF: Notes C.47-48 (part two)

[David Morris]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> pg 87-88
> "[I] rather enjoyed following in the dark a weedy and rocky easterly
> projection of my grounds ending in a locust grove on a slightly higher level
> than the north side of the poet's house."
> 
> Kinbote may be confusing locusts with the cicadas Shade writes about in his
> poem.  We also learn that the Goldsworth property has a higher elevation
> than Shade's, putting Kinbote geologically above the other.

Although the cicada is often called a locust, there is such a thing as a locust
tree:

http://www.streetside.com/plants/floridata/ref/r/robinia.htm

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