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Conjuring at the motel: "bits of colored light"
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In Shade's description (l.609-16) of the old exile dying in a motel, he
writes: "And, from the outside, bits of colored light / Reaching his bed
like dark hands from the past." Given that Kinbote, in his note,
imagines
himself as the man, I have come to believe that these lines explain
Kinbote's (mistaken) assumption in the foreward that there is an
amusement
park outside his dwelling. He is imagining lights from a merry-go-round
or
somesuch midway ride.
Matthew Roth
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writes: "And, from the outside, bits of colored light / Reaching his bed
like dark hands from the past." Given that Kinbote, in his note,
imagines
himself as the man, I have come to believe that these lines explain
Kinbote's (mistaken) assumption in the foreward that there is an
amusement
park outside his dwelling. He is imagining lights from a merry-go-round
or
somesuch midway ride.
Matthew Roth
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