NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)

[Malignd]

<Quail:

<Yeah, I find this a very puzzling item, and it seems
to be a "clue" to *something.* Did the proofreader who
looked at the poem also look at the foreword, but
Kinbote, being rather in a tizzy, failed to note a 
comment? Or is it a note by Kinbote to himself that
was accidentally retained?>>

Kinbote says he was asked by Frank, his publisher, to
mention that he alone is responsible for mistakes in
his commentary.  So he writes:

"Frank has acknowledged the safe return of the galleys
I had been sent here and has asked me to mention in my
Preface ..." etc. 

In short this is the response to Frank's request
(itself mentioning the request) and "[i]nsert before a
professional" his direction to the typesetter.

It suggests that the publishing of the book may indeed
have been going forward as Kinbote describes, but may
never have reached completion (perhaps because of
Kinbote's suicide? (although that's another issue)),
and so we the readers are reading a late draft.


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