NPPF: Notes Line 286/Line 347

[jbor]

on 14/10/03 2:54 AM, Scott Badger wrote:

>> "(Small-fish gesture and wink)...(Pout and shrug)...(Traffic-stopper's
>> palm)"
>> Is this pantomime (a) put on for our benefit?

The main thing which struck me about this detailed account of the meeting
between Oswin Bretwit and Gradus is: How would Kinbote know what happened?
Bretwit "died under the knife" in hospital on the very next day, and Gradus
wouldn't have mentioned the meeting to him, so ....

It's almost as if Kinbote *deliberately* includes these details which show
the recount up as a fabulation (a bit like that wonderfully droll script of
'The Haunted Barn' he composes a little further ahead).

And how come, when Kinbote cites the "link and bobolink" couplet (lines
812-3) the numbers are transposed (812 -> 182 and 813 ->183) and moved to
the inner margin of the page? Is this a clue to decoding the "secret design"
of the ghostly "abracadabra"? Or another red herring?

Great notes by the way. Thanks.

best