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An Elderly Gentleman IMAGE140:
Now
After the Elderly Gentleman collapses, his butler/care-giver
summons three medical specialists. One orders the butler to
do something—the exact nature of which is purposely ambiguous.
The reader is led to infer, from I141, he
has been ordered to prepare blood work for the Gentleman’s surgery (I143).
It is not until much later (I225 ) that we fully realize,
in something of a revelation, the true nature of his task, and the hidden
urgency of this transparently innocuous Image. The logic of the novel’s
final, wrenching, twist requires that we recollect and reinterpret I140.
Its strangely angular shape "points" at the pivotal importance of this
image, as an overly obscure word or similitude or uncharacteristic syntax
might in a written novel. Another conspicuous attribute: this image is
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