NPPF Zembla & the Criminal Imagination

[Terrance]

> No, [Zembla] is an imaginary place "biologically" similar to Scandinavia (VN said).


In your imagination or his? 
Who imagines such a place? 
Why ...um...  a person with an imagination ... of course ... a dreamer
of elegant jigs and saws puzzling behind the shades and beyond the pale 
of ghostly pedagogical pedarastic passion...ah ...um ... that is .... 

And what kind of an imagination ... ? 

Not the criminal sort. 

In his brief but fascinating essay "The Art of Literature & Common
Sense" N tlaks about being inspired and then sitting to make a good
story. 



Canto the first
Stanza the 4th

I cannot understand why from the lake
I could make out our front porch  when I'd take
Lake Road to school, whilst now, although no tree
Has intervened, I look but fail to see
Even the roof. Maybe some quirk in space
Has caused a fold or furrow to displace
The fragile vista, the frame house between
Goldsworth and Wordsworth on its square of green. 

Line 42: I Could make out 
Vintage Pale Fire page 80

Now, Kinbote talks about Shade as if Kinbote were Shade's inspiration. I
think we discussed the tradition of the muse and so forth,  but here, 
it seems to me that Kinbote is talking about Inspiration in the sense
that N defines that term in his essay.