NPPF That'd be up the butt, Bob [was Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)]

[Don Corathers]

> --- Don Corathers <gumbo at fuse.net> wrote:
> > I think I 've figured this out, at some cost to my moral serenity: with
no
> "secondary homosexual complications" Kinbote is assuring us he's not
Fleur's
> back-door man, either.
>
> I think you're making this into a "bush vet" thing, but that's OK 'cause
who
> really cares?
>
> DM


That certainly wasn't my intent. I really believe that's the meaning of the
sentence. I was also serious in my post about the alternate definition of
"infant" and the possible implications of the uncertainty of the date of
Caroline Shade's death.

I think such details are worth caring about in Pale Fire because, unlike the
extended dialogue about the meaning of "Bush vet," close examination of them
sometimes--often--yields rewards and connections.  This one, if you choose
to read it the way I do, reveals something about Kinbote's sexual
psychology. It's a small thing but it deepens my understanding of his
character. It is by teasing out the little Easter eggs and alternate
readings in the text that the texture is revealed. Thought that was why we
were reading the book.

Don