GR translation: the grotto of one eyeball

[Mike Jing]

I thought the white is part of the eyeball, but I could be missing
something here.


On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The grotto is where the eyeball rests....the whites that get
> color-filled---bloodshot, say.....
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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