NPPF irresolution

[Jasper Fidget]

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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of jbor
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: NPPF irresolution
> 
> on 13/9/03 3:22 PM, jbor wrote:
> 
> > [Walter] Campbell, Scottish, born 1890, gets a reference and a bit more
> > biodata in the Index as "K's tutor" (King's? Kinbote's?). Monsieur
> Beauchamp,
> > who doesn't, is, I'm assuming, Oleg's tutor.

Good catch, I hadn't noticed that -- Beauchamp sits down at Campbell's
bedside just after Oleg arrives.

> 
> I just noticed that there are two different ways in which the initial "K"
> is
> used in the Index. When it's written in italics it refers to "Kinbote",
> when
> it's not in italics it seems to refer to "the King". The pretence --
> perhaps
> only the pretence of a pretence -- of a separation between Kinbote and
> Charles the Beloved *is* sustained in the Index after all.
> 
> best

Interesting -- under Shade, John: "/K/'s spectacular arrival in the USA,
691" uses the italicized version.  That's the note where the narrator goes
from speaking of the king in the 3rd person to the 1st.  In fact they're all
italicized under "Shade" -- it seems like it's the subject of the entry that
determines whether or not to use italics.  I haven't found any entries that
have both, and it seems all the Zembla entries have K while all the New Wye
entries have /K/.

And check out the entry for /K/: "see Charles II and Kinbote."  

All the people in the text have their names or initials italicized (eg /S/
for Shade and /G/ for Gradus), except for K(ing).  

And why K instead of V (for Vseslav) or C (for Charles II)?

Jasper