N and homosexuatity

[Paul Mackin]

Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> 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


Sounds promising. The allusion, if it's an allusion, is in the form of a 
simile.. Something that is described  in Shade's poem is "like" 
something that happened elsewhere.  A little "like" or a lot "like?"  In 
what respect "like?" Similarly traumatic? Similarly  shameful? Similarly 
pleasurable/?
Or similarly identical?

And possibly apropos of nothing.

P.