NPPF: Notes Line 286

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 10:32, Scott Badger wrote:
> Mary:
> > Why does there never seem to be any doubt that the "ego" of the phrase is
> > Death? Even if there is no doubt that it was carved on a tombstone, that
> > seems to me to be no reason to conclude definitely that Death is
> > the speaker.
> 
> As I mentioned in the notes, there is an alternate version, erroneously
> quoted in a _Pale Fire_ Cliff-like notes, attributed to Dementia (chained to
> her gray column), which is suggestive of both Kinbote and Jack Grey. I also
> found this same version at
> http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~laa16/prevexams/Makeup_Final_1997.htm .
> Does anyone know the source?


I meant to ask you about this earlier. 

Another mention of "Even in Arcadia am I" occurs in the commentary on
Line 629. (this is the one quoted in the Harvard examination and I
assume in the Cliff-like notes)

Kinbote takes off not from the line itself but from a line K says Shade
had written in but struck out namely "The madman's fate."

I am still thinking about Mary's question.

P.