NPPF Comm 2: Parents: some notes

[Jasper Fidget]

pg. 100
"Chicago where I interrupted for a couple of days my automobile journey from
New Wye to Cedarn" 

Reinforces the assumption of Cedarn's location, that it is at least west of
Chicago.

pg. 100
"Other names derive from professions such as Rymer, Scrivener, Limner [...],
Botkin"

Botkin is (probably) aka Kinbote, and it is the only name in this list that
is not English and has nothing to do with writing.

pg. 101
"the neatly stacked batches of [Pale Fire index cards] lie in the sun on my
table as so many ingots of fabulous metal"

Prompts a question that I don't recall being asked: could Kinbote be in it
for the money?

pg. 101
>From Professor Hurley's "Appreciation of John Shade": "Just before our
poet's untimely death he seems to have been working on an autobiographical
poem."

What if this quote from Prof H. were the only reference to the poem that
Kinbote had ever seen?  What if he wrote his own poem and passed it off as
Shade's, along with a commentary, in order to profit from the poet's death?

pg 105
"Grindelwod": Grindelwald is a beautiful little town in Switzerland:

http://www.clasohm.com/photodb/photo?photo_id=3412&size=lg

Also Grindel (or Grendel) is the monster in Beowulf, so "Grindel's Wood."

pg. 105
"Fleur de Fyler": Flower defiler, de-virginizer.  Makes me think of Joyce's
"Sir Tristram, violer d'amores" (FW:3).

pg. 105
"Pavonian Pavilion": has the ring of Pavlov in it.

pg. 105
"along which a road, connecting with the Eastern highway, ran."

A Zemblan parallel for Dulwich Rd. which "On the northern side of the hill
[...] joins the highway leading to Wordsmith University" (pg. 92).
Wordsmith is to the east of Dulwich Hill.

pg 106
"the various approaches to a fortified castle": or to a fortified text.

pg 107
"a black chess-king crown": reinforcing the chess motif with Kinbote in
control of the black pieces.

Jasper