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From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
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> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
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> > From: "pynchon-l-digest" <owner-pynchon-l-digest@waste.org>
> > To: <pynchon-l-digest@waste.org>
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> > > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> > > Subject: Re: NPPF (Commentary) Unreliable Weathercock
> ....
>
> > > The reader Is the waxwing slain by the false azure
> > > feigned remoteness of the kinbotepane. John Shade is inspired by
> > versipel.
> ....
>
> Thanks, Keith! I had never connected the "false azure" with
> Kinbote's "blue inenubilable Zembla". Just to show you how slow
> someone can be.
>
> And the discussion of "versipel" on the Pynchon list has made me
> realize that except for Shade's comb/shoehorn/spoon, Kinbote is
> the most obvious skin-turner in the novel. (I guess he's a reverse
> versipel--same skin, different person inside.) Does that make him
> Shade's muse? If I read that somewhere and forgot it, I apologize
> to the author. It would have been my prejudice against the idea
> that Kinbote inspires Shade.
>
> I'm not sure either of those comments is what you meant, though.
>
> > > Kinbote is so transparent that while you're reading through him you
> > > can get yourself slain.
>
> Heh heh.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
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> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "pynchon-l-digest" <owner-pynchon-l-digest@waste.org>
> > To: <pynchon-l-digest@waste.org>
> ....
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> > > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> > > Subject: Re: NPPF (Commentary) Unreliable Weathercock
> ....
>
> > > The reader Is the waxwing slain by the false azure
> > > feigned remoteness of the kinbotepane. John Shade is inspired by
> > versipel.
> ....
>
> Thanks, Keith! I had never connected the "false azure" with
> Kinbote's "blue inenubilable Zembla". Just to show you how slow
> someone can be.
>
> And the discussion of "versipel" on the Pynchon list has made me
> realize that except for Shade's comb/shoehorn/spoon, Kinbote is
> the most obvious skin-turner in the novel. (I guess he's a reverse
> versipel--same skin, different person inside.) Does that make him
> Shade's muse? If I read that somewhere and forgot it, I apologize
> to the author. It would have been my prejudice against the idea
> that Kinbote inspires Shade.
>
> I'm not sure either of those comments is what you meant, though.
>
> > > Kinbote is so transparent that while you're reading through him you
> > > can get yourself slain.
>
> Heh heh.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>