N and homosexuatity

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In a message dated 7/16/2003 5:28:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:


> Would he have planted a few suggestive lines in PF likely to catch the
> eye of the careful reader but which on further examination lead nowhere?
> (which many n-lister seem to see as the case)
> 
> 
> Perhaps the implication being that child sex with adult family members
> doesn't have the expected consequences after all.
> 
> Would this be irresponsible? 
> 
> 

I noticed the lines in question right away, but was not too
surprised by them, mainly because I thought it was a
parody of a similar adventure to which Celine subjects young 
Ferdinand in his  _Death on the Installment Plan_, which
the scene resembles- at least in Manheim's translation. I'll
post them later. I just figured it was another of the "planted"
literary allusions with which the whole novel seems rife, and
was more interested in trying to decide whether it was a
conscious allusion by Shade, something inserted by Kinbote,
a Nabokovian wink to the reader, or, some permutation of
these. The possibilities begin to bloom, take on a life of 
their own, as it were, the more one tries to ascribe authorship.

Of course, the resemblance to Celine's work could be
merely coincidental.

respectfully
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