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

[s~Z]

>>>pg 86
"the coming of summer presented a problem in optics: the encroaching foliage
did not always see eye to eye with me: it confused a green monocle with an
opaque occludent, and the idea of protection with that obstruction."

Kinbote wants to see *through* nature to whatever interests him beyond it,
so in this sense he may parallel Shade.  Where Shade's interests lie in the
otherworldly, however, Kinbote's lie in the here-and-now.

See also on pg 86: "Sybil whom a shrub had screened from my falcon eye"
(87), "he never pulled down the shades (*she* did)" (87), and "interference
by framework or leaves" (89).<<<

Compare the above to Lines 41-48
of the poem in which Shade is puzzled
by his inability to see his house "although
no tree/Has intervened."