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Fw: waxwing's nest and his perch or porch in NW
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Pale Fire Birding:
lines 71-79
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
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lines 71-79
I was an infant when my parents died./
They both were ornithologists.../
..........................
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
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