TMoP, Chap 13.

[Mark Kohut]

p. 168 Matronya in a frenzy of possessive jealousy, thinks D. Madness infects many in this novel?...or is he an unreliable obeserver of Matronya?
  ---never spoken so woundingly before.

p. 170...LOOK: our recurrent slaughterhouse metaphor...with the axe making
a further appearance..."She stands like a beast in the slaughterhouse waiting for the axe to fall."...
The Police----Power/Law & Order/Status Quo.....