NPPF: CANTO ONE: Synopsis

[cfalbert]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
To: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper at hatguild.org>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF: CANTO ONE: Synopsis


>
> > A literal synopsis
> > Not required.........
>
> But a good idea...
>
> > The poem opens with the waxwing hitting the windowpane
>
> No, the phase is past tense thus not an "event" per se, which makes the
comment
> below possible, but I have other ideas.  It's is not necesarily a
rememberance,
> but more an analogy re. himself.

The list of potential analogues is enormous........Shade qualifies, as (per
MalignD) does Hazel. But so do Kinbote, potentially Botkin, as well as "the
reader".....

The pane can represent numerous alternatives as well...

It is, as I once suggested, a remarkably fecund metaphor....

love,
cfa