NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 6 of ?

> I had
> learned exactly when and were to find
> the best points from which to follow
> the contours of his inspiration. My
> binoculars would seek him out and focus
> upon him from afar in his various
> places of labor: at night, in the
> violet glow of his upstairs study where
> a kindly mirror

Kindly: Kinbote sees Shade as of his kind.
The N list recently mentioned Paul's "in a
glass, darkly" ends in a cognate of enigma,
which I take as like mystery, hidden truth,
which can only be riddled out reflexively.

> reflected for me his
> hunched-up shoulders

Typical of AF; Physiognomy makes me also
list hypertrophied lip elevator muscles.

> and the pencil
> with which he kept picking his ear
> (inspecting now and then the lead, and
> even tasting it);

If Shade is The Word, then Sybil is an ear.

> in the forenoon,
> lurking in the ruptured shadows of his
> first-floor study where a bright goblet
> of liquor quietly traveled from filing
> cabinet to lectern, and from lectern to
> bookshelf, there to hide if need be
> behind Dante's bust;

Bright marks male, day interrupts night.
Dante was a fellow; The Raven on Pallas'
bust was a fellow. In the mouth is also
behind the face. A lectern holds a book,
is probably his hand, Sybil the cabinet.

> on a hot day,
> among the vines of a small arborlike
> portico, through the garlands of which
> I could glimpse a stretch of oilcloth,
> his elbow upon it, and the plump
> cherubic fist propping and crimpling
> his temple.

Cherubim marks the sword-ly (male) angel.
Not that temple, but the genital temple
where one worships, praises, viz. sucks.

> Incidents of perspective
> and lighting, interference by framework
> or leaves, usually deprived me of a
> clear view of his face; and perhaps
> nature arranged it that way so as to
> conceal from a possible predator the
> mysteries of generation;

No view of face might be a reflexive clue:
Kinbote as an earlier/later transformation
or another state or a multiple personality
(MPD) of Shade?

> but sometimes
> when the poet paced back and forth
> across his lawn, or sat down for a
> moment on the bench at the end of it,
> or paused under his favorite hickory
> tree, I could distinguish the

Distinguish: A verb not implying seeing.

> expression of passionate interest,
> rapture and reverence, with which he
> followed the images wording themselves
> in his mind,

He may as well have used "bodying forth".

> and I knew that whatever
> my agnostic friend might say in denial,
> at that moment Our Lord was with him.

Kinbote the totalizer may trump Shade, but
begs the question, who totalizes Kinbote?
Does there exist an outermost totalizer?
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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