But I like to think & hope that all these rather pedantic calendrical-memorial-structural elements are subsumed by the main plot, which is also about return or rebirth. The Orpheus story: the narrative track of the flickering ghost of Bluejay-Juliet, the rose out of the clay of July-Jubilee. & Henry-redivivus, who "fulfills the (Dream Song) scriptures". (Dream songs were a form of Ojibwa midewe practice.) & the mysterious "nef" of J, hovering overhead & overshadowing them all.