NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[s~Z]

>>>I will leave myself open to other theories that Kinbote is
Botkin, or that Shade wrote the whole thing and invented the deposed king,
or that Shade is Kinbote's, uh, ghostwriter.<<<

I'm beginning to wonder if the commentary isn't designed to reinterpret the
poem to protect Shade from what he perhaps unwittingly reveals about himself
and his activities in the poem. Is it possible that he was molested by Aunt
Maud and then in turn molested Hazel, and that she either committed suicide
because of having been molested or was killed by Shade? Brian Boyd sees
Shade as an embodiment of sanity and propriety, so I'm probably waxing
loosely and prematurely, but what the hell.