NPPF: Commentary 2(summary and notes) Lines 403-404

[Jasper Fidget]

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

> 
> Lines 403-404,  "it's eight fifteen (and here time forked)"
> 
> The synchronicity is becoming more highlighted
> and Kinbote proceeds to summarize 70 lines of the
> poem noting that he italicized the Hazel theme.
> Hazel is on her blind date and heading for
> disaster while the Shades are at home, working,
> watching tv, tense with a sense of foreshadowing
> (adumbrated ... see below).
> 
> This time the synchronicity is between Hazel and
> Shade. In most parts of the book it's Shade and
> Gradus whose actions are parallel.
> 

The synchronicity theme has another nice little crescendo at the end of this
commentary: "From far below mounted the clink and tinkle of distant masonry
work, and a sudden train passed between gardens, and a heraldic butterfly
/volant en arrière/, sable, a bend of gules, traversed the stone parapet,
and John Shade took a fresh card" (p. 202).

This is sort of swirling around Gradus as he stands in the vineyards,
contemplating his next move as the poem moves forward in composition and
commentary, while masons build and trains appear (activity of human
progress, and "passed between gardens" has a whiff of the sexual), and the
Red Admirable makes a cameo as it gradually catches up to the final
crescendo; the phrase "volant en arrière" means flying behind, but it will
eventually find Shade: the unusual word "gule" is found in _Timon of Athens_
IV:3: "With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules."

Jasper