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I was an infant when my parents
died./
They both were
ornithologists.../
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A preterist: one who collects cold
nests.
line 105-6
My picture book was at an early age
The
painted parchment papering our cage/
line 518-19
it missed/ What mostly interests the
preterist;/:
comments to line 991 (Kinbote)
..."he sat in his Nest ( as he called it), the
arborlike porch or veranda...I openly walked to his porch or
perch...
Since preterist might apply both to what had been "omitted or left
out" and to "past actions", in what sense would Shade have employed the word,
differently from Kinbote?
Jansy