The club where LeBlanc works and the Trio plays, and the streets of Paris, are drawn from the collective unconscious (Yeats's spiritus mundi) that has shaped a fabled "place," and rendered it timeless and romantically colored by selective nostalgia. The gypsy rhythms of Reinhardt's spirit provide its soundtrack, the music he plays "joining itself to a far-off time" in an art-fashioned fantasy of eros-tinged dreams. Every gesture, nuance, and remark carries the added significance of its legendary setting, and Cocteau's reply when Reinhardt explains that he would "interrupt your dreaming only with a matter of urgency" is to point out that "Life is the interruption"—an observation which clearly establishes the doubled realm of setting. Cocteau's suggestion that Loli is "lost in a poem" further fuses the fictional and the real so it is not surprising to discover that the "box" that has abducted Loli is not...