GR translation: the grotto of one eyeball

[Mike Jing]

So what's the "grotto" exactly? The published translation interpreted it as
the pupil, but I'm not sure if it makes any sense.


On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Two ideas:
>
> If it’s simply how he looks, then the headlights as they pass illuminate
> one eyeball (apparently he has blue eyes?) so that it looks like a jigsaw
> piece
>
> Or if it’s what he’s seeing, then the bright light illuminates the blood
> vessels inside his eye & all he can see is that pattern which looks like a
> jigsaw puzzle
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > V380.14-17, P386.17-20   Slothrop frees his arms from the cape, lets a
> lean
> > gray Porsche whir by, then charges out, the red of its taillights
> flashing
> > along his downstream leg, headlights of a fast-coming Army truck now
> > hitting the upstream one and touching the grotto of one eyeball to blue
> > jigsaw.
> >
> > What does "the grotto of one eyeball" refer to exactly? And how does it
> > become a "blue jigsaw"?
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