NPPF Aunt Maud

[s~Z]

>>>It's all of these things without necessarily being about Maud abusing
Shade
*or* Hazel, of course, and there doesn't seem to be anything in Nabokov's
subsequent comments about the poem or the novel which indicates that he
intended to intimate an incestuous relationship between Shade and Aunt
Maud.<<<

There doesn't seem to be anything in Nabokov's subsequent comments
which indicate much of anything about his intent, hence the decades
long debate. It goes without saying that his comment that the poem
is racy, etc. are not indicative of particulars, but I read very little
about
the stand alone poem which fits those descriptors.

I did find Nabokov's comments about Kinbote and Zembla intriguing.
Again, it goes without saying that his comments don't prove any
particulars, but the quote gives Zembla a vividness that, for me, points
away from the popular view that Zembla is a figment of Kinbote's
deluded imagination. His reign is unaddressed by the quote, but
Zembla itself appears very real.