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

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>> It is interesting that Kinbote would assume the time frame of the slain
> waxwing to be Shade's childhood <<<
> 
> Given his fondness for faunlets, it is not surprising that he is imagining
> Shade as such.

A reasonable assumption/imagining if we don't ignore the poem. 
Canto I talks about infancy, childhood, early age, growing into boyhood,
becoming a lad of eleven years, going to school, praying, eschatological
shock, being raised by Aunt Maud, loss of belief or faith, turning this
loss and his unfinishedness and the like--illness, awkwardness, pain--
into sublime dreams and poems. 

What matter if I live it all once more?
Endure that toil of growing up;
The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
Of boyhood changing into man;
The unfinished man and his pain
Brought face to face with his own
clumsiness [...]

The Pynchon Nabokov Connection: 

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0203/articles/delasanta.html

And, as the commentary proves, the eschatological is political: 

http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/ryan.html