NPPF: Summary Line 286

[Vincent A. Maeder]

> > From: Scott Badger [mailto:lupine at ncia.net]
> >
> > > Line 286: A jet's pink trail above the sunset fire
> > >
> > > Lotta' red in this book. A marker of the King and, in its many shades
> > > (gradatively?), a repeating intersection point in the paths of our two
> > > lemniscating bicycle writers, but is it a clew, or a lure? Or
> > > texture? The color red can also be a trigger for an epileptic
> > > seizure, particularly epilepsy in children....a-and Synesthesia
> > > can cause seeing the color red....The line also echoes the title,
> > > the only instance in the poem according to Boyd.
> 
Also, the color of blood shed by Mr. Shade and, subsequently and presumably,
by Mr. Kinbote himself.  Also, thinking of the reference to dogwood as the
wood of choice for crucifixion, the shedding of blood as Christian
reference.  Also, Amber is a close relative to red.  V.