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

[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:
> 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.
>

thanks, I couldn't think of a way to link them up, but there's got to
be some kind of echo effect going on with the present-on-the-page but
metaphorical taking of the eye in Chapter 10, and the implied
(offstage, "ob-scene") physical taking of "Vera's" eye in Chapter 9.

a progressive knotting-into, or knitting-onto...
(apparently Gentle Giant did a madrigal version of RD Laing's "Knots",
speaking of knotting in a general way)