I don't regard as any sort of 'fact'; just find it of interest as a theory ~ don't think Reeves presents it as any more than that.

You are coming over to me here as uncharacteristically narrow, Mike ~~ just one possible interpretation and that's it! And oddly sort of deferential to authority: Bob Thomson said it, so it must be so [tho as I said before he is a fine taxonomist but not imo a great theorist] -- & Bert thought the same, so that clinches the matter!
And of course it's the bugaboo ~~ whoever said it wasn't; but that doesn't preclude other possible elements ~~ dew doesn't represent a bugaboo, (except maybe in rhyming-slang?); so why shouldn't it symbolise virginity as well while it's about it? ~~ seems to me that that would well fit Blow Away The Morning Dew too. What rule says that no word can bear more than one meaning or overtone? As I once heard Leavis say in a lecture, "Note that ambiguity ~~ of course there are far more than Seven Types Of Ambiguity, he was just being modest."

~M~