NPPF Hazel

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Wed Oct 15 02:17:58 CDT 2003


Kinbote's note to line 247:

    ... Shade's maternal grandmother (a first cousin of Sybil's
    grandfather, if I am not mistaken).

I think Kinbote is insinuating that Hazel's maladies might be the result of
in-breeding, a characteristic commonly ascribed to European royalty also.

best




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