NPPF Comm 2: Parents: some notes

[jbor]

on 31/8/03 3:09 PM, Don Corathers at gumbo at fuse.net wrote:

> The inclusion of Botkin in a list of names where it doesn't really fit
> (three writers--four counting Luke--and a shoemaker) is a way of pointing at
> the name. Nabokov does this now and then, makes an odd intrusion or has one
> of his characters say we shouldn't concern ourselves with X, which is
> usually a clear signal that we should check X out very carefully.
> 
> And the paragraph is about how names change.

Your thesis doesn't really seem to fit with the other mentions of Botkin
which Kinbote makes in the commentary; Lukin, Locock, Luxon and Lukashevich
aren't names which refer to writers; and the paragraph actually begins and
concludes with references to Hurley's obituary; but I won't labour the
argument.

We'll just have to agree to disagree.

best