GR translation: the grotto of one eyeball

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, maybe so...so I do not know what the grotto could be if so.....flesh
around it?

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>