What's the name for that thing Jarvis does where he uses a word or term in different meanings.
Such as in After You: "To get through the night after you", "To chase through the night after you", "I'll hold the door for you, no I insist, after you" he does something similar in Weeds 2 and many others.
One of my faves is from Weeds II when Jarvis sings 'A source of wonder due to their ability to thrive on poor quality soil offering very little nourishment, Drinking Nurishment'. It's the way the same word is used but means different things. He is at once talking about the plants and the people the song portrays.
It's not, of course... but that's the only useful way to describe it. Jarvis is using several different techniques in these examples, and when you pin each of them down you lose the essence of what we enjoy. To me, that's what 'art' means. The bottling and labelling school of linguistics is generally the reserve of the green ink brigade.
I agree, the whole concept of English literature lessons is dumb, i nearly missed out on a lot of wonderful Steinbeck books after endless analysis of mice and men. I just wanted to know the name for that type of word play so I could find more examples online. Which I have.
