NPPF Commentary Line 238, P. 168, Part II

[bekah]

At 10:25 AM -0400 10/12/03, Jasper Fidget wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
>>  Behalf Of Vince & Shelly Maeder
>
>>
>>  2) Also referenced are the preservative properties (embalming of the
>>  ant) of amber.  This is a particularly good metaphor for the
>>  "preservation" Mr. Kinbote has attempted to perform on Mr. Shade's canto
>>  as well as his attempt to preserve his real or imagined history as
>  > Zemblan king.  But, which is the cicada, what is the amber, and who is
>>  the ant? 
>
>Also, who is the locust?  Kinbote as locust devouring Shade's crops....  But
>only an "ignorant settler" would think that!
>
>Jasper


I kind of think, as I read those lines, that it is Hazel who is the 
ant, Shade the
"locust" and Kinbote the non-living amber.

Hazel is the basic food for all of it. Shade is using her to feed his 
poetry and Kinbote is ready to freeze both in his own very filtered 
light.


<http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0702.htm> for photos of ants, etc. in amber.

<http://www.cyberimport.com/catalog/pendant/pendant_amber.htm> has a 
cicada in amber.


Bekah