Back to PF, dates and
places:
Hazel was 16 in 1950, the year of Aunt Maud's
death, when she experienced poltergeists. The haunted barn's light-and-sound episodes took place in 1956
(October), a few months prior to her death. It was Dr.Sutton who offered help in
both occasions.
The events in the barn, described by Shade and
reported by Kinbote, had initially taken place on a Saturday
night, with "a student employee from the campus hotel and a local
hoyden," but Shade himself had not mentioned his daughter's part in it.
Why did Shade
campaign to get Hentzner's barn destroyed as representing a
"fire-hazard"?
It must have been after Hazel's death, but I
still cannot grasp his intention.
While investigating data related to Hazel's "talking light", I
roamed over Kinbote's comment that Hazel "resembled" him in certain aspects
(mirror-words such as "toilest" and "redips"), when he calls attention to one of Shade's examples (didactic
katydid*) that apparently doesn't fit.
In his note to line 347, "old barn", Kinbote
mentions Shade's kips and "marrowskies" ( transposing the initial
letters of words, such as in "renty of plain", following "Words of Slavic Origin
in the English Language" : "marrowskyer, one who uses marrowsky language or
makes marrowskies in his speech; marrowskying vbl. n., the intentional or
accidental transposition of ..." www.scribd.com/doc/2866661/Words-of-Slavic-Origin-in-the-English-Language
- 910k -)
Can anyone offer an example of Shadean
"marrowskyings"?
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* Wiki informs that Katydid, in American English, is the common
name for insects of the family Tettigoniidae, also known as long-horned
grasshoppers and in British English as bush-crickets.
There is also "What Katy Did", a
children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey
Woolsey. It follows the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, growing up in
midwestern America in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting
into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. When a terrible accident
makes her an invalid, her illness and recovery gradually teach her to be as good
and kind as she has always wanted. Two sequels follow Katy as she grows up -
What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next. Coolidge modeled Katy on her own
childhood self, and the other 'Little Carrs' on her brothers and sisters.
[...]To date, two TV movies and a brief TV series have been based on What Katy
Did. The most recent film (1999), a 1972 UK movie adaptation,and the 1962 8-part
TV series – also called Katy, and also made in the UK – featured rising star
Susan Hampshire in the title role.