NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Don Corathers]

Clearly I need to spend some more time with the poem. I haven't even been
able to quite make out Shade's youthful head between his Aunt Maud's thighs
yet. I'll admit your cite of "gummed ant" got my attention, though.

Hazel? Not Hazel.

Don Corathers


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From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph


> >>>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.
>
>
>