NPPF: Keith's Shocking Theory (was Preliminary: The Epigraph)

[Vincent A. Maeder]

Continued...

So the point of this was that we are seeing the delusional diary of an
imprisoned felon convicted of child rape and murder...  (Sorry I didn't
get to the point sooner...)

V.  

> There's been this whole idea of Zembla being Kinbote's delusion
relating
> to his imprisonment for the sexual molestation and murder of Shade's
> child.  The whole bit with his previous life in the castle seemed so
> prison like, the homosexual acts (as was said to the level of a sexual
> circus) has the ring of a prison.  Then there is the whole fantasy of
> escape through a secret passage that he had found in his childhood yet
> never used since (?!).  This secret passage also possibly being
> metaphorical for the mental escape to a better time from his youth, or
a
> desire to retain youth by raping a child, or for simple anal sex (note
> the descent down into the earth.
> 
> V.