<p>I'm going to post the same thing here that I posted in the other place:</p>
<p>I think puzzling/fabrication, also--he was never edified by his father, he COULDN'T have been edified because he didn't know anything. Thus the "swaths" of ignorance/curiosity (that one's up for debate too, but it's probably the former). Would you have swaths of ignorance if you were edified? Mais non!</p>
<p>I am going to bump this thread so that it is next to the thread with the passage. Bustles I just typed up the "swaths" paragraph. Hmm...you do have a point.</p>
<p>bustles, that's the whole point. he was trying to get to know more about his father's past, but because it proved to be such an enigma, he was unable to edify himself. he was trying to edify himself, trying to get rid of those swaths of ignorance...</p>