NPPF: Notes Line 287-Line 334

[Scott Badger]

> Line 287: humming as you pack
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> "Dr. Ahlert"
> Ail and hurt.
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> "aromatic draught" and "valerian flavored burp"
> Valerian root, see http://floraleads.com/TINVAL.HTM .
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> Don't know about that aromatic though....
> http://herbsforhealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa091197.htm
> "The flowers also omit an aroma that is other than pleasant,
> hence the name Phew. The roots, also have an unpleasant smell
> that resembles dirty socks, sour dirty laundry or sometimes my
> dog when she's damp! The aroma is tell tale as soon as you pull
> up the root."
>
> Also, of note to the Fugue State theorists in the crowd,....:
> http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/valerian.html
> "Sleep deprivation is a common trigger for seizures, so valerian
> may be helpful for some people with epilepsy who are troubled by
> insomnia."
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>
> "'Among the lupines and the aspens,' said the poet gravely."
> "The fourth tree, the tree of the autumn equinox and of old age,
> is the shifting-leaved white popular, or aspen, the
> shield-maker's tree." Robert Graves, _The White Goddess_
> I don't remember anything about lupines in WG though, 'course
> Gradus might be described as a grey wolf.
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>
> "I was left with about 2,000 meters"
> About 6,000 feet. Kinbote will soon be left with nearly 5,000
> meters, or 5,000 feet....5,000 feet is also the highest trail
> access in the Zemblan mountains.
>
>
> "black-winged fate"
> (line 122)Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
> Infinite aftertime above your head
> The close like wings, and you are dead.
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>
> "mujik's izba"
> A Russian peasant's hut according to the OED.
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>
> "Refuge Z"
> Zembla? And, if so, a refuge??
>
>
> "Appalachian"
> Eastern US mountain range that extends from Georgia/Alabama north
> through New England up to the Gaspe' peninsula in Quebec. (so
> noted from my own Appalachian castle)
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>
> "Tirolese garb"
> See pg. 173: "[Disa] had come in male dress, as a Tirolese boy"
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>
> "goetic mirror"
> OED goety -- Witchcraft or magic performed by the invocation and
> employment of evil spirits; necromancy.
> Hmmm, Shade as Snow White?....Kinbote, the Evil
> QUEEN!!?...there's that fugue-like state SW lies in....and
> Gradus, as the poison apple?...but the *King* is red...and who
> wakens SW with a kiss?...what about the dwarves??...oh hell,
> thought I had a PF theory of my very own...
>
>
> "Hurley's tumble-down ranch"
> See page 101: "[Kinbote's tutor, a Scotsman, used to call any old
> tumble-down building 'a hurley-house'"
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> Line 316: The Toothwort White haunted our woods in May
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> "Toothwort"
> OED "1. Lathræa squamaria (N.O. Orobanchaceæ), a leafless fleshy
> herb, parasitic on the roots of hazel and other trees, bearing a
> double row of flesh-coloured drooping flowers, and having
> tooth-like scales upon the root-stock."
>
> Also see: http://www.ctbotanicalsociety.org/galleries/cardaminemaxi.html
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> "white"
> OED "12. An animal of a species, breed, or variety distinguished
> by white colour; a white horse (obs.), butterfly, pigeon, pig,
> dog, cat, etc. (Chiefly as a fanciers’ abbreviation.)"
> but also...
> "17. a. White colour or hue; white coloration or appearance; whiteness.
> Sometimes semi-concr."
> and...
> "21. The player who holds the white pieces at chess or any similar game."
>
>
> "Virginia White"
> A white winged butterfly...
> http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/pa/779.htm
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>
> "cabbage butterfly"
> ....another white winged butterfly
> http://www.blitzworld.com/butterflies/images/butterflycabbagewebSVG677.JPG
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> Line 319: wood duck
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> "wood duck"
> http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/hww-fap.cfm?ID_species=49&lang=e
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> Line 334: Would never come for her
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> "amber-and-rose"
> OED amber -- "4. A piece of amber used as an amulet to attract
> lovers. Obs."
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> Scott Badger