NPPF commentary line 149, p. 143- continued

[Ghetta Life]

Wow! Some of Michael's commentary on the Commentary is as surreal as 
Kinbote's.  I'll just skip around to a few points:

>From: Michael Joseph <mjoseph at rci.rutgers.edu>
>
>"... after a while he stopped again to take stock of conditions and decide
>whether to scramble up the steep debris slope in front of him or to strike
>off to the right along a strip of grass, gay with gentians, that went
>winding between lichened rocks." (143) The choice seems as clear as, say,
>the choice between sex and death, and yet it takes Charles--a king, whose
>royal function is to choose--a second or two to choose.

You are playing with a Freudian take on a novel by an author who's professed 
disdain for Freud.  Of course, still, even Nabokov can pe psychoanalized..

>Oddly, Charles's perceptions (which are consubstantial with Kinbote's)
>embrace imagery of violently forced sexual abstinence.
>
>"Falkberg with its hood of snow" (144) suggests a penis covered by a
>leperous foreskin (rather than a hardon with a ruddy head or an
>upright leader with a crown)

Please!  I've just finished my lunch!  But really, I can't see this 
"suggestion."

>"Paberg (Mt. Peacock), and others,--separated by narrow dim valleys with
>intercalated cotton-wool bits of cloud that seemed placed ... to prevent
>their flanks from scraping against one another" (144) suggests a kind of
>sexual restraint inhibiting consenting thighs.
>
>"Mt. Glitterntin a serrated edge of bright foil" (144) suggests a menacing
>gelding knife.
>
>"a tender haze enveloped more distant ridges" (144) suggests the painful,
>fading memory of one's one-time ridged (manly) self.
>
>".. an endless array, through every grade of soft evanescence" (144)
>suggests disintegration, though perhaps ecstatic disintegration: a rainbow
>of indistinctiveness; the full monty of death.

Or maybe detumescence, yeah, I think I'm getting it...

Crazy, but sort of fun...

Ghetta

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