The Life Ring

The Life Ring · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Residents of the Blue Room, the motif is identified as “The Life Ring.” Four retirees remember the same 1968 cruise. Two of them have no memory disorder.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.