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Morton sits in a chair at the bottom left-hand comer of the screen: The camera
moves slowly toward her, eclipsing Julie and Franck as they dance in the upper
right-hand portion of the frame. Her characters invite her into their story, but she
reappropriates the narrative before going upstairs to sleep and to dream. Unlike
Ted Cole and Mort Rainey, Morton enjoys her revitalized literary success and
finds solace and purpose in her novel Swimming Pool.
University of Colorado
Jan Whitt
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