NPPR Line 143 a clockwork toy

[Glenn Scheper]

Please, How is a candle(stick) related to broken time symbolism?

>      Shade and Kinbote's sojourn constitutes an escape from time:
> the candle, handless clock, broken clockwork toy, are all broken
> symbols of time, or symbols of broken or stopped time.

C. line 143 says candle-stick, a hyphen at line end in my copy.

Solving candlestick is half the key of a mystery in Revelation:

1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which
     are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right
     hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are
     the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks
     which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Is a candlestick the candle itself or the candle's receptacle?
Websters: Candlestick: a cupped or spiked holder for a candle.

Funny, I opened my oldest reference, Harper's Bible Dictionary,
wherein the entry Candlestick said, See Lampstand. These past
20 years I've been trying to see the symbolic importance of a
thing that supports an oil lamp, which in my mental image had
deteriorated by now to approximately a bedside night-stand.

But now I find the Candlestick of Rev. is Greek LYCHNOS, which
I can now properly map to Lamp, which discussion indicates no
candle at all, but for that age, a vessel with oil and a wick.

Which might VN mean by candlestick?

>From my AF perspective, Aladdin's lamp is Aladdin himself.
The djinn comes out of a bottle which is himself. Rather,
he is intertwined with the bottle, like the vase my wife
bought, that has a serpent passing through cracks in it.
Depending what end's what, putting a lamp under a bushel
resembles coitus, but the lamp on a lampstand his mouth.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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