NPPF--commentary--734-735--probably...wobble...limp blimp ...

[Paul Mackin]

Actually the note refers to lines 734-736 

Is this Kinbote's error or N's or the proofreader's? 

Contrapuntal pyrotechnics

Contrapuntal in the sense of the interweaving of contrasting elements.
Text vs texture. Logically arranged narratives involving cause and
effect (binary thinking) contrasted with seeming non-sequiturs that are
yet uncannily related.

Does Kinbote actually "get" Shade's meaning? 


But all at once it dawned on me that this 
Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme: 
Just this: not text, but texture: not the dream 
But topsy-turvical conincidence, 
Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense. 

etc.