NPPR: Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate

[cfalbert]

What if the two "boundaries" of the lemniscate represent Shad and Kinbote
with the "connective medium" represented by Gradus?

love,
cfa



> The lemniscate then might also represent the union of the two worlds of
PF,
> one of them a "real" world (or an *exterior* world, given the möbius
> pattern) where V. Botkin takes evening rambles with John Shade; and the
> other a "false" world (*interior*) filled with kings and shadows and fairy
> tales.  The intersection would be Kinbote, who bridges those two worlds,
and
> stands with one foot in both but lives in neither (thus also a *reason*
for
> Kinbote, the subject of some debate here).
>
> This structure may also serve as a model for Shade and his poem and his
> preoccupation with life-after-death, or, as Michael indicates, with author
> and reader and the creative interpretive act; in both cases the
> identification and creative use of a pattern that facilitates the
derivation
> of another world or condition, or at least represents the *striving*
toward
> that other world or condition.  (I'm beginning to see how Heidegger might
> fit here.)