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Tom Rymour: As a widower who remarried, I can confirm that a jewel case may be appropriated in short order. Hoping that there's no postunnurost...
JM: Shade's scheduled "paradise" has to keep careful registers and archives, if widowers aren't allowed to to meet any former lovers, except their serially, lawfully-wedded. wives. Elysian bureacracy!
btw: The widower, in PF, has been twice widowed, or so I gather. Wasn't the second wife already waiting around in "Elysium" (with an averted face), when the husband finally got there?
After reading Tom's, and Matt's, considerations about Hazel and Shade ("And she, the second love, with instep bare/ In ballerina black, why does she wear/ The earrings from the other's jewel case?/ And why does she avert her fierce young face?"), I suddenly remembered Du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," and, in particular, Hitchcock's 1940 movie, based on her novel. I should have visualized a scene with emerald ear-rings, if there is one, when the second wife wears the other woman's costume-dress. A haunting rival but in PF the haunting must have been Aunt Maud's: wasn't her room "kept intact", like Rebecca's ?
Matt Roth's lines from Mary Shelley's "Mathilda" are convincingly close to the Hazel idea and the matter of romantic oedipal fixations (Matt, what do you make out of Percy B.Shelley's own drama, "The Cenci"?)
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JM: Shade's scheduled "paradise" has to keep careful registers and archives, if widowers aren't allowed to to meet any former lovers, except their serially, lawfully-wedded. wives. Elysian bureacracy!
btw: The widower, in PF, has been twice widowed, or so I gather. Wasn't the second wife already waiting around in "Elysium" (with an averted face), when the husband finally got there?
After reading Tom's, and Matt's, considerations about Hazel and Shade ("And she, the second love, with instep bare/ In ballerina black, why does she wear/ The earrings from the other's jewel case?/ And why does she avert her fierce young face?"), I suddenly remembered Du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," and, in particular, Hitchcock's 1940 movie, based on her novel. I should have visualized a scene with emerald ear-rings, if there is one, when the second wife wears the other woman's costume-dress. A haunting rival but in PF the haunting must have been Aunt Maud's: wasn't her room "kept intact", like Rebecca's ?
Matt Roth's lines from Mary Shelley's "Mathilda" are convincingly close to the Hazel idea and the matter of romantic oedipal fixations (Matt, what do you make out of Percy B.Shelley's own drama, "The Cenci"?)
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