Dear List,
It would not have been necessary to press my point
concerning the link bt. the tie Gradus wore and the Vanessa Butterfly
offering you images of bow-ties and falters.
Kinbote mentions this link explicitly in one
of the entries in his Index - bit although the connection is highly
probable, I cannot be absolutely certain that it lies in
his reference the tie ( Vanessa: "caricatured" ).
Please, check letter "V" under
Vanessa. The entries are not exaustive since there are several other
references to the Red Admiral but these emphasize a special
chronology.
Vanessa: "evoked" ( comment to line 270);
"flying over parapet..." (408); "figured" (470); "caricatured" (949);
accompanying S's last steps..."( 993).
Concerning the item "figured", there are K's
comments on the poet's "artistic objections to 'colored' ".
The Vanessa
atalanta butterfly is "heraldic" ( "harvalda", "the heraldic one", in
Zemblan ) where "black" is described as "a color" (
details already posted a few days ago).
Kinbote notes that In "defective or
premature publications the figures on some plates remained blank" ( was this
idea taken up in ADA where Uncle Dan striped shirt reminded Van of a
badly printed cartoon? ).
The item "caricatured" mentions comment to line 949
and there are two entries ( two silent zones) with the same title and
different texts. The second entry is longer ( pages 273 to 284,EL) and it was
there I found the description of the tie that Gradus got from his brother-in-law
as Easter gift.
Jansy