VV(18) - Melanie

[David Morris]

Here is another reason for the reference to Apollo with Melanie and her Father:
http://hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/Apollo.html

Since Daphne 1, pursued by Apollo, changed into a Laurel tree, the god is
associated with the Laurel. For it is said that while Apollo pursued her, she
implored to Zeus to disappear from sight, and as her prayers were heard, she
was turned into a laurel tree. That was all that remained of her, but Apollo
broke a branch from the tree and placed it on his head declaring:

"Since you cannot be my bride, you shall at least be my tree. My hair, my lyre,
my quiver shall always be entwined with you, O laurel." [Apollo. Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1.557]

> ----------
> (394)	Melanie’s head ached, but she didn’t care.  Or did, but not where she 
> was, here present as a face and a ballerina’s figure on the bouncing back of 
> a taxi.
> ----------
> Melanie is far removed from the present.  Her body in the role of Ballerina 
> is present, but she is elsewhere.  Like Stencil’s, her personality has been 
> dislocated.
> [...]
> The Opera’s dome with it’s Apollo evoke for Stephanie her father’s bald 
> skull.  This links Apollo and Father to Death.

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