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

[Jasper Fidget]

> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of s~Z

> While no reference to Southey using Dear Stumparumper could 
> be found (Is stumparumper in Finnegans Wake?) I found 'dear 
> Grandmama' in a tale about a murder in a stable. The format 
> of the poem is like Kinbote's format for 'T H E  H A U N T E 
> D  B A R N' on p.190.

Nice find -- I tip my imaginary hat.  I've been thinking about the barn in
connection to something Boyd pointed out: that the ghost lights Hazel sees
in the barn are paralleled by the tunnel lights young Charles sees in his
escape tunnel.  If the barn lights are connected to Aunt Maud (as Boyd
maintains), and the tunnel lights are connected to Oleg, then there may be
an additional parallel between them: Oleg was Charles' first lover.... 

There's no "stumparumper" in Joyce, at least according to this site, which
claims to offer concordance text searches for all his work:

http://www.grand-teton.com/cgi-bin/jjoyce/omnisearch.cgi


> 
> >>>pg 81
> "pale and diaphanous final phase": another echo of the title 
> which K admits "cannot be regarded as a direct echo of my 
> narrative".<<< http://www.eldritchdark.com/wri/short/white_sybil.html
> 

Somehow I can't imagine VN picking up the latest issue of Weird Tales, but I
wonder if he was at all familiar with the stories of Smith or Lovecraft.

Jasper