GR 'Streets' polysemous

[s~Z]

>>>Outward meanings are secondary because novels don't pretend to assert or
explain or describe, and hence are not true, not false, not history lessons,
not political propaganda. Literary meanings are hypothetical, and a
hypothetical or assumed relationship to the external world is merely
imaginative. IN a novel like GR, questions of fact or truth are subordinated
to the primary literary aim--to tingle the spine and produce a structure of
words for it's own sake. ANd the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to
their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs. <<<

So you don't go for the Jeremiah Dixon school of literary criticism?

---whereas 'tis Mason who stands sweating and paralyz'd before the great
Death-shade of the Forest between Savage Mountain and Little Yochio Geni,
"...a wild waste," he will write, "composed of laurel swamps, dark vales of
Pine through which I believe the Sun's rays never penetrated," which evokes
from Dixon, at his lengthiest, "Great uncommon lot of Trees about...?"