NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of jbor
>
>
> But there are errors and incongruities in Kinbote's writing, such as the
> "your favorite" in the second paragraph of the Foreword, which is
> grammatically and cohesively inconsistent with the rest of that paragraph.
> Nabokov has had Kinbote write deliberately in this manner, and it's not
> the
> way Nabokov would write a Foreword to a critical edition of, say _Eugene
> Onegin_. Sure, there are flashes of inspired writing, but Kinbote is also
> pathologically verbose and he is unable to control the tone of his
> writing,
> and much of what he does write, and the way he it is written, is
> inappropriate to the context in which he is writing, and these are
> stylistic
> flaws which Nabokov has consciously endowed him with as an aspect of the
> characterisation.
> 
> It's worth following the hypothesis through.
> 
> best

The "your favorite" incongruity seems rather more blatant than a "stylistic
flaw"; I think when something stands out as obviously as this does, it has
to be a clue to something.  Certainly it's an aside from one person to
another, whether that first person is Kinbote or otherwise.

akaJasper