NPPF: Notes Line 286

[Paul Mackin]

Ghetta Life wrote:

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>> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine at ncia.net>
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>> > Line 286: A jet's pink trail above the sunset fire
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>> > "Even in Arcady am I, says Death in the tombal scripture."
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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."
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> http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Argus1.html
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> "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.
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> 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."
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> 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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In Latin it's Et in Arcadia ego Virgil


Also the name of a Poussin painting. (shepherds discovering a tomb)

P.