NPPF: Notes Line 286

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Scott Badger" <lupine at ncia.net>
>
> > Line 286: A jet's pink trail above the sunset fire
> >
> > "Even in Arcady am I, says Death in the tombal scripture."
>>
> > Kinbote seems to be linking Shade's "jet's pink trail" with Gradus' 
>flight from Copenhagen to Paris. Interestingly, a different version is 
>erroneously quoted at: 
>http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/pale/summ4.html
> > "Even in Arcady am I," says Dementia, chained to her gray column."  I 
>don't recognize it, and couldn't find the source (a sign of my own arcadian 
>intellect, I'm sure.), but "Dementia" is suggestive of Kinbote and could 
>also point to the insane asylum escapee, Jack Grey.
> >
> > Also from the same site: "The name "D'Argus" is hardly a disguise as it 
>is an anagram of "Gradus." The name "Argus" alludes to Greek mythology. 
>Argus was a watchman‹not an assassin, and another anagram of the name 
>"Gradus" is GUARDS. The earlier commentary foreshadowed the arrival of 
>"Dementia" in "Arcadia." In Greek mythology, Argus was the watchman for the 
>town of Arcadia, ridding the utopia of pests, giants, and monsters."

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Argus1.html

"Argus has been called "The All-seeing", because he had eyes in his whole 
body, or perhaps only one hundred eyes in his head that slept two at a time 
in turn while the rest remained on guard.

Argus was known for having killed a remarkable bull which ravaged Arcadia, 
and for having caught asleep and killed the monster Echidna, who used to 
carry off passers-by. Also when a Satyr wronged the Arcadians and robbed 
them of their cattle, Argus killed him."

Ulysses dog (the one to first recognized him on his return) was named Argus, 
as was the builder of the Argo, the ship of the Argonauts.

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