NPPF Comm2: Parents, part 2

[Don Corathers]

Kinbote calls Alfin's monoplane his "bird of doom"
> (reminding me of the Butterfly of Doom), while the model plane causes him
to
> beg "Dear Jesus, do something."


Damn, I was looking everywhere for that model plane last light.  Why do you
suppose that memory--presumably Kinbote is writing this recollection of New
Wye at his cabin in Utana a month or two later--opens such a reservoir of
despair for him?

Don