NPPF: Commentary 5 (notes) Lines 433-434

[Jasper Fidget]

> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of bekah

> 
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> page 204
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> It's near Cap Turc and Villa Paradisa. (renamed for Disa.)
> 


Villa Paradiso -> Villa Paradisa: another Zemblan gender switch.


> **  Disa, Duchess of Payn. Payn is incredible Pain, so Disa is the Duchess
> of Pain. She is truly a very unhappy woman. Exiled to the Villa by her
> husband. (line130)
> 


p. 206
"the tall, sheared and bearded visitor with the bouquet of
flowers-of-the-gods who had been watching her from afar advanced through the
garlands of shade"

A parallel of the scene where K approaches Shade while he's writing "Pale
Fire."  Also recalls the Houseman poem referenced on p. 196, linking Shade
to the Athlete who died too soon.


Jasper Fidget