Sub Rosa Dictum: A Rose for Emily, Something Special, Wild Swans. the Tacit Intertexuality of Love Discourse
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Abstract
1. IntroductionThere are three roses in this bunch: Emily, Yvonne, and Rose. Subject to critical evaluation, they provide methodological tool: is sub rosa is beyond mere morphology. Moreover, taken chronologically, these stories show rose grow, bud, and flourish into transcends time itself.Put through love ordeal, three protagonists are initiated into adult world, an experience that proves both disastrous and eye-opening (e.g., Sumerian goddess Inanna's rosette can be identified with an eye, third eye, it were). Analyzing metaphorical systems that evolve around rose, controlling image of three narratives, I am looking for patterns that could help interpret similar stories and even single out flower discourse special type of coming-of-age narratives.A prominent stratum in stories' subtext is basic Indo-European myth, which features fight between Thunder god and Devil, binary that appears to be formed result of cosmic rosette's swirl (cf. conceptual metaphor LOVE IS WAR).In this paper, I make use of linguoand mythopoetic methods of analysis with elements of conceptual analysis.2. Wild Swans by Alice Munro (Munro 1995:1049-1055).A common experience: viewed from outside cathedral, rose window is material, a handle stuck to pot; viewed from inside, what is tom up by drunken men, in Flo's words, turns spiritual. What is seen through glass, darkly, or through filthy window, minister points out, is almost sacrament, an intimate affair between priest and penitent in confessional of train compartment, newspaper palaver (or lace dress, for that matter) grid. Transforming into regular Roman Catholic symbol of silence, Rose, instead of being defiled, is, on face of it, purified (the swan symbol of purity) and given spiritual guidance. Cela McKinney's husband, hotel manager, also chooses to keep to his room - or his mother-wife - Cela (of Greek and Latin origin, 'blind; moon'), cf. Old English *cella (attested in inflected forms), from Latin celia 'chamber, small room, compartment' (Online Etymology Dictionary)); McKinney is connected with Celtic god of fire. Flo(rence) shop assistant, with her varicose veins, is one who is truly reduced, nipped in bud, it were: She never saw sunlight.... These are white slaves whereas White Slavers, or souls' guides through underworld, are vendor on train, who sold Rose sour chocolate milk; conductor, who wakes her up at end of trip; undertaker, who drives hearse; driver-salesman, who brought bread to Flo's store; French teacher; and minister.Not unlike Eliza from fairy-tale and her brothers - dumb and bird-like - Rose lives through her initiation story. The Canadian Leda meets devil, father of lies (in alchemy swan symbolizes M/mercury) to see the rosy sky under her eyelids. Mavis shop girl, who forms other part of story's frame, has her eyelid (also known filiform) warts removed-papilloma (from Latin, literally nipple), through Frances Farmer (under whose name she booked herself in at resort), is connected with papillon, French for butterfly (from Latin papilio(n)). Although over one of Mavis's eyes dips hat (note informal dated meaning baptize (someone) by immersion in water (OED)), she only imitates Florence Farmer, instead of flourishing. (Actually, it all started with man's stomach cut with knife as if it was watermelon; snow melting and Flo receding; bank of Cela McKinney's house and train filling up at Brantford; or maybe even with sour chocolate milk, ginger ale, and vomit on previous trip-through swan pond; minister's waves of grey hair and his dark blue suit; ferns rustling and streams flowing; pulsating pipes of oil refineries-up to Niagara of orgasm, shores of Lake Ontario, Toronto - from Iroquois word for place where trees stand in water - and the cold wave of greed (with verbs diddle and dawdle describing way of moving (see below)). …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".