NPPF Comm4: Metadiscussion, anybody?

[David Morris]

--- Mary Krimmel <mary at krimmel.net> wrote:
> This is pretty far from the topic of PF, but I demur, slightly, here.
> 
> David Morris wrote
> 
> "... Four year olds are usually called toddlers.  I think the advent of
walking and talking is the divider between infant and toddler."
> 
> In my experience, no one who knows a normal four year old ever called him a
toddler. "Pre-schooler", perhaps. Four year olds are graceful walkers. They
run, dance, sometimes ski or skate.

I'm not sure it is off topic, since Shade said he was an infant when they died.
 The deaths of his parents may have more significance that has benn revealed on
the surface of the poem.  I get the feeling that a detailed lineage of both
Shade and Kinbote may be very revealing, but it's not an easy task.  It would
take a considerable amount of paging back and forth through the book...  I
wonder if anyone on the N-list (or one of Boyd's books) has already done this.

David Morris



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