NPPF Foreword: "your favorite"

[jbor]

>>>> the odd and
>>>> inexplicable "your favorite"
>>> 
>>> I find it to be a bit of anticipatory sarcasm, given K's later comments on
>>> that Canto....
> 
>> And the use of the second person? Who is the "you" being addressed?
> 
> The Gentle Reader of futurity....

Isn't there a point in the Commentary where Kinbote notes, albeit
demurringly, that Shade thought most highly of Canto Two? Or am I
misremembering? I have the impression that Kinbote is apostrophising Shade
with this "your favorite" remark. It is definitely an anomaly though (and I
can imagine it's one of those "signifiers" which the Shadeans, and the
Shade's shadeans, have latched onto.)

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