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

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/15/2003 12:56:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jbor at bigpond.com writes:

> 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."
> 

Irksome to Kinbote because he cannot tolerate the notion of knowing only "in 
part"; his obsession with Shade requires knowing in full!
Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225
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