VLVL/NPPF - on relating VN with TRP

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:

Not to be overly Kinbotic about it, but _Vineland_ is, of course, an
extended gloss on _Pale Fire_. Anyone paying attention should have
realized that immediately. It centers on a pivotal quote on page 366, Weed
to
Prairie:

"Rex, why? He's only the ceremonial trigger finger, just a stooge, same
as Frenesi. Used to think I was climbing step by step, right? toward a
resolution -- first Rex, above him your mother, then Brock Vond, then
-- but that's when it begins to go dark, and that door at the top I
thought I saw isn't there anymore, because the light behind it just
went off too."

Where are they? "...around Shade Creek..." (two grafs lower).

....a bigger, more respectable, competent Gradus?

in jest, natch.

etb