NPPF - Incest theme

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of 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


Line 501 reminds me of FW too: 

"L'if, lifeless tree! Your great Maybe, Rabelais:" (PF: 52)

"My leaves have drifted from me.  All.  But one clings still.  I'll bear it
on me.  To remind me of.  Lff!" (FW: 628)