NPPF Canto 1 Incest Motif

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 28 10:33:24 CDT 2003


I don't see your case being made yet, but I admit Canto One raises some
questions:

1.  What is that paste?
2.  Why did Shade have those attacks so regularly for one winter?
3.  Why did they stop?

My biggest difficulty w/ Maud as molester is that she's clearly portrayed as a
lesbian, and would thus not be interested in a little boy.  Also, she and any
hint of this theory disappear after Canto One.  Can you trace this deeper into
the book?
 
> > > What program do these mockingwords retell?
> > >
> > > "come here,/Come here, come herrr'; flirting her tail aloft"



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