V-2nd - Chapter 10 drove the little Triumph to the party...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Hard not to think of Vera Meroving's missing eye.  Who took the original one?  Is the time-telling prosthetic replacement more valuable to her?  Stencil, in some sort of time-warping way, is trying to catch her eye as she's caught his.  He's anxious to collect what ever inanimate parts of V.(the teeth, anyway) that come his way.  The eye in Mondaugen's story must have really caught his eye, because getting hold of it would give him a window into her soul, or a prosthetic's-eye view of everything she'd seen.

LK

>> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> one thing that strikes me in Chapter 10 is at that party where the
>>> girl takes Sphere's eye.  "Give me back my eye," he says.  This seems
>>> at first to be an interruption of uncontrollable, almost
>>> unconscionable levity on the author's part.
>>>
>>> But then Sphere turns down a tryst, goes running back to Ruby, and
>>> before that, Sphere's buddy remarks on him having eyes for the
>>> kitchen, or something like that - so one gets a picture of somebody
>>> being turned on, noticeably, and resisting it, for a reason.  And it
>>> also refers back to Shakespeare, "tell me where is fancy bred?"
>>>
>>> I have this harmless contrarian theory that V. is actually pretty cool...
>>>
>>>