Reading through certain scenes, in "Pale Fire", related to the sound of branches tapping against the window,* I ended up looking up the indications related to "Windows" in the Index: "Foreword,47,62,181." Unfortunately I couldn't make out what was it that the reader is supposed to examine.
The only other two other entries (that I could spot) used to highlight something other than animals, a game, a person's name, a geographical detail in a landscape, i.e., an apparently trivial object (like a window) referred me to "Tintarron"** and to the "Crown Jewels" and C.K's annotations for the latter seemed to be less confusing because they referred to hiding places and spies searching from the crown jewels.
I had some fun with Dieter Zimmer's choice for capital letters, italics and "dort" in Kronjuwelen, 130,681;s. Versteck, Tainik, russ. Versteck; s. Kronjuwelen and Versteck, potainick (s.dort). He included "Windows" ("Fenster" - sing.), unlike the translator's choice for the French (R.Girard and M-E Coindreau, Gallimard)since I couldn't locate "fenêtre" anywhere (I must have run out of synonims for "windows" in French?).
Has anyone already worked over why "windows" were mentioned in PF's Index and not, for example, mirror or glass? And to what kind of "window" they refer?
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*- A Pale Fire Timeline by Jerry Friedman is a precious aid...
**"In its limpid tintarron he saw his scarlet reflection but, oddly enough, owing to what seemed to be at first blush an optical illusion, this reflection was not at his feet but much further; moreover, it was accompanied by the ripple-warped reflection of a ledge that jutted high above his present position. And finally, the strain on the magic of the image caused it to snap as his red-sweatered, red-capped doubleganger turned and vanished, whereas he, the observer, remained immobile."(note to line 149: "one foot upon a mountain").
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