NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of The Great 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?
> 
> --Q

Isn't it fairly safe to assume that the Foreword at least has not been
proofed?  How else would something like "a loud amusement park" remain?
Unless the publisher had decided to treat the whole work as fiction...?

"Frank has acknowledged the safe return of the galleys I had been sent here
and has asked me to mention in my Preface -- and this I willingly do -- that
I alone am responsible [...]" (18).

If upon receipt of the galleys, Frank *then* asked K to add the above text,
how did that text get into the galleys that had already been returned?
There's an unknowable gap here between the writing of the Foreword and the
actual printing.