My intention is to invite you to help me explore these "tactile" issues ( mouth, eyes, fingers), not intrude any deffinite or fully explored conclusion. Jansy
To Jansy from Carolyn,
I too have noticed the sectile/mosaic/tesselated constellation. And your parapets don't surprise me. Unlike you however I can't think why it would be useful to explore something without the intention of coming to any conclusion. Alas, in this case I have none to offer.
But I can pose a possibility. It seems to me that VN likes to leave these little repeated word droppings that don't in themselves add up to anything. But one day, with luck or an inspired guess, you will pick up a book and find that the same word droppings are there.
But in these two cases, the repetitions are distributed over more than one work, so something else entirely may be afoot. One thing for sure, these are not coincidences.
Carolyn
p.s. I think that the reticulation of the veil may be part of the sectile/tesselated word group. But it does seem separate. Interesting.