NPPF - Canto One - more notes

[cfalbert]

> ln 62: "Of the stiff vane so often visited": see Nabokov's "The Vane
> Sisters".  From Boyd: "the ghosts of two dead women waylay the narrator's
> attention through tricks of light and shade, and without his realizing,
> guide his actions and words, even as he expresses explicitly the
> hopelessness of his attempt to discern some glimpse of the sisters beyond
> death."  (Boyd, _The Magic of Artistic Discovery_, 138)
>
...so often visited by the naive.....

I took this as "needing to know which way the wind blows"
figuratively........


love,
cfa