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Indeed, from their facility at assembling a tree house we might think that they are, not Lord and Lady Greystoke, but Mr. and Mrs. Robinson (as in Crusoe or Swiss Family).
George Bush--a professed admirer of TR--is the Tarzan of our day: A patrician Yalie (Lord Greystoke), and at the same time a Texan redneck (Tarzan), engaged in wildcatting (could there be a more metaphorically resonant term?)
, awestruck countercultural jungle movies such as The Emerald Forest (1985) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
The fact that Tarzan is really an English lord--Lord Greystoke, to be precise--was central to Burroughs' conception of his character.
The Tarzan mythos, then, depends on a balance of tensions--between Tarzan the Ape-Man and Lord Greystoke, between England and Africa, between civilization and savagery.