NPPF: Commentary 3 (summary) Line 408

[bekah]

At 7:00 AM -0700 10/20/03, bekah wrote:

>The commentary to this line ends with a train running between the 
>gardens,  a black butterfly with red diagonal stripe heraldic 
>butterfly crossing the stone parapet .** and John Shade taking a 
>fresh card

and in the notes:

>** black butterfly:   Vanessa of Doom again,  "A dark Vanessa" -- 
>Nabokov's beloved Red Admirable butterfly.    See Jasper's comments 
>at:
><http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0307&msg=83922&keywords=Vanessa>


Vanessa of Doom? Perhaps there's a mirror here with "Vanessa of 
anticipated release" in death.

Could the black butterfly really be Hazel remembered and leading the 
way, even in the Commentary?

Bekah
flitting around herself perhaps?