NPPF: anagrams

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:20, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > And the Kinbote/Botkin near-anagram is already alive within Pale Fire.
> 
> But who is Botkin?
>

We may never know. But I do honestly believe that the first and
immediate association many readers of Pale Fire will have is

When he himself might his quietus make/ With a bare bodkin . . 

Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1

That was my experience anyway.

Not necessarily anything logical about an association.

Incidentally there's another place in Shakespeare where the words 'pale'
and 'fire' occur in the same line. (I read somewhere)

P.