NPPF Canto 1 Incest Motif

[s~Z]

>>>Although I'm persuaded against the incest argument, I'm not persuaded
there aren't clues pointing toward it.<<<

Such as the 'dire cloudlet' of 'incest.'

iridule = iridescent cloudlet

And the first and last pages of Thoroughly Maud-ern Eve's scrapbook,
including the clippings from Life magazine regarding Talon Trouser Fasteners
and Hanes Fig Leaf Briefs.

The latter 'shows a modern Eve worshipfully peeping from behind a potted
tree of knowledge at a leering *young* Adam in rather ordinary but clean
underwear, with the front of his advertised brief conspicuously and
compactly *shade*d, and the inscription reads: Nothing beats a fig leaf.'
[emphasis mine] (PF, p.115)

Pale Fire is a Rape File.