NPPF - Incest theme

[The Great Quail]

Keith's observation:

>>                       Espied on a pine's bark.
>>   As we were walking home the day she died,
>>   An empty emerald case, squat and frog-eyed,
>>   Hugging the trunk; and its companion piece,
>>   A gum-logged ant. (235-40)
>> 
>>   Aunt Maud = a 'gum'-logged aunt.
>> 
>>   Ant = insect
>>   Aunt = incest

This recalls "Finnegans Wake," as well, with the "insectuous longing" felt
by HCE for his daughter, Issy. And of course, even though Kinbote mangles
the spelling, the book is referenced by Nabokov in the text. (Though IFRC,
Nabokov disliked the Wake...?)

--Quail