NPPF - Incest theme

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 15 09:34:17 CDT 2003


> And as Ms. Kunin has already noted, the insect/incest word play is explicitly
> used by Van Veen in "Ada" because his lover/sister is an avid insect
> collector/scholar.

Oh! I get it! An anagram (insect/incest). That's the Dostoyevsky
connection, right? 
Thank Log we figured that one out. Can't pull nothing over on us. No,
sir, we are just peeping-pats on the job. The brother get acquainted.
How familiar do they get? 
Speaking of Froidian figs creeping, the tendrils. 


And I thought I was just having another fit of somnolence.



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