NPPF: Commentary 4(summary and notes) Line 431

[bekah]

Hi again,

In Line 431 Kinbote advises us to see Line 440 which leads to this note.

I'm reading Bryan Boyd's Pale Fire: The Art of Artistic Discovery 
(excellent, btw) and have had a little insight which is  probably 
pretty well explored previously somewhere but I thought I'd get it 
out of my system anyway.

One aspect of the structure of Kinbote's commentary is to direct the 
reader to either previous or subsequent lines. I can see that as 
reflective of Shade's poem as well as the commentary in that Shade 
and Kinbote go back and forth in their tales. Shade does it with the 
Hazel's life (although that's mostly at the beginning and then the 
"time forked" line, but again towards the end) and Kinbote does it 
repeatedly throughout, with all the flashbacks and foreshadowing.

Could this also be an aspect of going forward into death and going 
backwards into memory? Could the present material world be the words 
and lines we are reading, reading future lines is going into death 
and going backwards is memory?  Just a thought.

That's all.

Bekah