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Re: False Azure, Frost: CHW reply
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Jansy Mello writes: 'In my opinion, as already stated, the "false" might not
be a reference to a sky-color "azure", but to something else that is
...feigned ( Cf. another line:I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/ By feigned
remoteness in the windowpane.)'
I have long wondered about this line. Who or what is "feigning" the
"remoteness"? It looks like the Pathetic Fallacy. But VN is much too canny not to
know this. Is he attributing this fallacy to Shade? Is Shade ironically
attributing it to himself, as he ironically attributes the false "syllogism" to
himself. (Thanks to SKB, by the way, for his further comments on that.)
Anthony Stadlen
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