GRGR: Jessica Swanlake

[David Meury]

jbor wrote:

<<I read Jessica's name as evoking the ballet, rather
than the music -- not the specific plot of Swan Lake
(which is *the* ballet, after all), but in terms of
the poise and precision of a prima ballerina. Cf.
Milton Gloaming explaining Zipf's Principle of Least
Effort to her, "even her bewilderment graceful"
(32).>>

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Swan Lake is the dance, the story, and the music.  It
is also associated with the movie, Dracula, references
to whom are explicitly and inferrentially made in the
text.

I am certainly not arguing against your preference but
I think there can be multiple suggestive properties
operating here and throughout the work.  This is why
GR is so much bigger than its page-count.

I am also aware of the danger of going too far down
the free-association highway and winding up in
Crazyville.  I think, however, that people who send us
postcards from there were actually there all along.

On a related note, I am grateful to the people who
have gone further than I am able and show me territory
I couldn't see before (e.g., Jody's latest post
"...into the dead center").



		
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