memory and Suzanne (offshot of Typhon's nature)

Jerry Friedman · 17 Oct 2011, 20:47 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) memory and Suzanne (offshot of Typhon's nature)
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>From: Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
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>I don?t agree that the name of the main character in Suzanne Delage is significant, or that it is about memory.? Sure, the name is apparently that of a minor ?>character in Proust, and Wolfe is known to like Proust.? But nobody has ever, as far as I know, proposed any particular connection between the actual Proust >character who bears the same name, and the character in Wolfe?s story.? If the story was called Mary Macdonald, I would read it exactly the same way as I do. 
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The excerpt from Proust is available at the WolfeWiki
http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.SuzanneDelage
and there are more resemblances than the character's name.? Whether these resemblances should suggest anything about the interpretation of the story is another question.
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Jerry Friedman

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