NPPF: Who's watching Gradus?

[Malignd]

<From the beginning of the foreword to the last page
of the commentary, Kinbote speaks to us pretty
consistently in the same first-person voice. Whacked,
but consistent.  *Except* when he's describing
Gradus's progress from Zembla across Europe to New
York and on to New Wye. Those sections are written in
a jarringly omniscient third person, profoundly
different from the rest of Kinbote's
text. ...  I expect we'll be returning to this
question in the coming weeks.>>

Also perhaps pertinent to this:  if one assumes or
believes that Gradus is actually Jack Grey, out to
kill Judge Goldsworth, then the entirety of the Gradus
material--the very idea of Gradus--is invented by
Kinbote only after Shade is killed.



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