EDNote: Agreed!
I agree that this trail (especially in the form of any explication of
my own views, which are not at all reflected in what I remember of what
I was taught as a child) is not one we need to follow on this list. But
some discussion of the subject — it may have taken place long ago and
been thoroughly settled — will have to be endured if we are to
understand Charles The Beloved’s aka Charles Kinbote’s iterated and
reiterated fundamentalist Christianity. The discussion could begin with
the identification of the anguished priest young Charles observes while
cooling his calves against a stone column.
Andrew Brown