NPPF Comm3: Misc notes (1)
Scott Badger
lupine at ncia.net
Wed Sep 10 19:55:45 CDT 2003
Jasper:
> p. 118
> "As children playing in a castle find
> In some old closet full of toys, behind
> The animals and masks, a sliding door
> [four words heavily crossed out] a secret corridor--"
>
> Probably Kinbote's most glaringly fake "variant" to the poem,
> relating as it
> does directly to the Zembla story to follow. Was Kinbote just unable to
> think of anything for the fourth line, or is there some secret
> passage here
> that a reader might discover...?
"-on the other side" comes frustratingly close...
Scott Badger
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