NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Jasper Fidget]

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> 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.
> 

And more disturbing still!