GRGR(3): Jessica and Roger, Mind-to-mind

[Keith Woodward]

At 07:07 PM 6/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 5:43 PM -0700 6/7/99, Michael Perez wrote:
>>Love
>>is sometimes something that passes the time.
>
>If so, can it be love? What I've seen of Roger and Jessica in GR so far is
>infatuation, an intense sexual affair made all the more dramatic by its
>wartime setting. Sort of like Pirate and Scorpia. Nothing like Zoyd's love
>for Prairie (or for Frenesi, either), or the love Charles Mason and
>Jeremiah Dixon share.

A-and, of course, that of Mason for Rebekah.

I must say, though, that I don't hink that old Roger is getting a fair
shake.  In past reads, I've always seen Roger as being quite in love with
Jessica (even if it is--but of course it is--hopeless).  I can't recall to
any degree of certainty where it is in the text that get that feeling from
(the church scene, perhaps?) but it's the impression I've always gotten.
Oddly enough, for all of Jessica's capacity to sense what Roger is
feeling(?)/about to say, she seems to me to be much more removed than Roger.
Though she does seem (again, later) to be concerned about who she should
finally choose to be with.  Although it might pass the time, I don't think
the relationship is finally just something to pass the time.  It's more than
just a mind-fuck (though perhaps the thread should nonetheless be titled
"GRGR(3): Roger Jessica, Mind-to-mind").

Heh heh heh,

Keith W