GRGR 1,2 correction / blue baize

[Cometman]

>more about the screaming: i've read descriptions of accidents where
>people hear screaming and realize it's their own

that'd be more a JG Ballard type thing, eh?

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Pg 14, Line 15-19
"Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless
search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to
observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the
terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old,
glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets...."

maybe there's a blue baize blotter or something on the evaluator's
desk, covered with lots of paperwork.  It's "under Whitehall" so these
would be secret offices...and the paperwork would be terrible,
concerned as it would be with The Great Game
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game)

there's graffiti on his sockets, like unto a wall; since the dreams
aren't his own this is apt 
(the owner rarely writes graffiti on his own wall)
actually walls aren't the only place you find graffiti.  some of the
best is on railroad cars...there's that train again...or on viaducts)

glyptic, though, melds the image with a recognized equation of eyes
with gems...then the blue baize could refer to the lining of the
jewelry box/eye sockets...
objective correlative would be the blue blood in veins (why veins?
because the image would reach the blood through the capillary walls and
be taken back to the brain in the veins - ok this is getting ridic)

old, glyptic old --- lapsing into poetic diction? incremental
repetition (like later we see excremental repetition in the toilet
sequence(s))

he doesn't actually _say_ "eye" sockets either.  It could be light bulb
sockets, etched by Byron the Bulb...