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I'm reading Julia Bader's Shadean interpretation of PF (Crystal Land).
This got me to thinking about Kinbote's statement that "Hazel Shade
resembled me in certain respects." Those two re-s, along with the
passage's concern with word games, led me to look up the etymologies
of the words they prefix. As follows:
resembled: reassembled
certain: in Webster's 2nd, it is listed as a cognate of "riddle" --
"akin to Gr. krinein to decide, separate. See RIDDLE a seive,
2d EXCREMENT; cf. ASCERTAIN, CONCERN, CRIME, CRINOLINE, CRISIS,
CRITERION, CRITIC, DECREE, DISCERN, ESCORIAL, GARBLE, HYPOCRISY,
SECRET." (Quite a list, when applied to PF!!)
respects: to look (specto) back (re-).
Thus: Hazel Shade reassembled me in riddle look back.
Thus: Hazel Shade reassembled me if to the riddle you look back.
Matt Roth