Popular Culture Review Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2005 | Page 27

Sweet Desolation and Seduction
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clutching the baggage rack above his head. He felt the dancing
better that way, and told Violet to do the same (30).
That the dance could continue, to linger in love and companionship—
there is the sweet desire of Jazz. If only such community could exist in one pair
among many, with and without the hustle and bustle, with and without the
“sweet tooth” (219) for pain: “It was loving the City that distracted m