(urth) memory and Suzanne (offshot of Typhon's nature)

[Jerry Friedman]

>From: Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
 
>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.
 
Jerry Friedman