GR: baize fields and paper gaming

[Michael Bailey]

then too, I think it's relevant to consider the "across the table" motif:

specifically Slothrop and Tantivy facing each other across the tavern
table, which is linked verbally with the ocean:
"...across the wood Atlantic of their table.  (paragraph) Atlantics
aplenty there've been, these three years...."

then you have Pointsman and Kevin Spectro across a table with a
hypodermic between them...

probably others?