NPPF Foreword: "the composition he saw in a glass, darkly"

[jbor]

The second citation from the newspaper interview with Professor Hurley which
has so irked Kinbote:

    "None can say how long John Shade planned his poem to be, but it is not
    improbable that what he left represents only a small fraction of the
    composition he saw in a glass, darkly."

on 15/7/03 12:55 AM, Jasper Fidget wrote:

> An attack by K's opposition in regard to Shade's intention for "Pale Fire",
> that Prof H. uses the word "none" must be particularly grating to K., given
> his tenuous hold on being a real person.  Also note another glass reference,
> and this time obscured, unknowable.

Cf. also:

1 Corinthians 13 

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my
body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not
her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in
iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it
shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is
perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of
these is charity.

http://www.darwincommunitychurch.com/1cor4.html

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