NPPF: Who's watching Gradus?

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 09:33, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > "Canto Two, your favorite, and that shocking tour de force, Canto Three, are
> identical in length (334 lines) and cover twenty-seven cards each."
> > 
> > Who is "you?" Canto Two is mainly about Shade's speculation on the
> possibility of survival after death with particular emphasis on the survival of
> Hazel.
> 
> No.  Canto Two is about Hazel's suicide.  It would be strange for that to be
> someone's favorite.

Unless one's is seeking liberation from the the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune.

Who might not his own quietus make with a bare bodkin.

Had not the everlasting set his mark against self slaughter. (roughly)

Perhaps Hazel is an atheist.


 
>  
> > He can't likely be addressing the dead Shade, because in the immediately
> following sentence "his death" is referred to. Hazel is a possibility. Why
> might Kinbote want speak or pretend to speak to Hazel? 
> 
> I'm stumped.
> 
> David Morris
> 
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