NPPF: preliminary - epigraph

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:

Bandwraith wrote:

>Interesting, but I would submit that Oedipa is completely sane.
>She has insight into all the possibilities, including that she may
>be hallucinating.

Agreed. I didn't mean to imply she wasn't when I said she and Kinbote are at
different points on the madness scale. She is on the sane end, for sure, and
he isn't, for sure. My proposition is only that she is damn near crossing
over ... and the novel ends before we know whether she will or not.

In Kinbote's case, it's way too late for him to go back, and he would never
think the things Oedipa does, especially that the whole thing is a practical
joke being played on him -- which, I'd say, is more true in his case than in
hers, the practical joker, natch, being VN.

etb