NPPF--commentary--627--The great Starover Blue

[Paul Mackin]

Starover Blue was characterized earlier in the poem as "college
astronomer." 

It's so like K to relate  his chagrin at not getting more of the Zembla
story into the poem to a dubious moral judgement. Or the fact that there
were other great men in the poet's acquaintance.I forget who Oscar
Nattochdag is. 

We get some riffing on the appropriateness of the name and some
genealogy. His mother's name of course means star. 

Starover Blue was referred to earlier as lean and glum. I don't remember
his being call honest. Must of missed it.