NPPF Canto 1 aside re the mockingbird

James Kyllo jkyllo at clara.net
Mon Jul 28 17:26:34 CDT 2003


That mockingbird's  "to-wee" seems to me a close relation of the birds of
unspecified species quoted as "poo-tee-weet" in various Kurt Vonnegut
novels, esp "Slaughterhouse 5" and "God Bless You Mr Rosewater".

A-and, according to "Breakfast of Champions", Kilgore Trout's father was an
ornithologist.

Of course these all postdate Pale Fire

James




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