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Great analysis, levingrad. This is a real boon, as I'd only so far matched three novel scenes with the JOI films. Yet I suspected that there more matches to be made ... but anyway, now you've gone and done the bulk of the heavy-lifting/difficult sorting. Thanks!
I've only got one thing to add, and that's the film /Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell (988)/ which is mentioned on page 297 (did I remember correctly that you're reading the Back Bay edition? Me too) as being the film that made the biggest impact on JvD. This tidbit connection probably explicates or at least illumines pg.235's mid-page pronouncement, "[JvD] always sees, after inhaling, right at the apex, at the graph's spike's tip, Bernini's 'Ecstasy of St. Teresa,' behind glass, at the Vittoria, for some reason, the saint recumbent, half-supine, her flowing stone robe lifted by the angel in whose other hand a bare arrow is raised for that best descent, the saint's legs frozen in opening, the angel's expression not charity but the perfect vice of barb-headed love.'
Not that I really know what this all means (I have my ideas, but many are crazy), but I do at least see the connection.
Oh, one more thing to throw in the the mix: On page 16, toward the bottom, Hal mentions, "... [thinking] very briefly of the late Cosgrove Watt." C.W. is first listed on page 16 as having died, and I've long (well, not all that long) wondered whether he's (i.e., Cosgrove W's) the 'C' mentioned in the section that starts on pg 128. Cosgrove Watt is also one of JOI's repeat actors.
--M
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