Until I have a chance to dig up some old notes for a proper blog post, I'll give you something to ponder.
I've been thinking about misdirection a lot lately, and it doesn't help that the picture of Hermes Bouchard on the
eotvoswheel.com website reminds me vaguely of Penn Gillette. So I was circling back around for a few minutes last night and I realized....
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from www.eotvoswheel.com
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The picture of Hermes Bouchard has four fingers. It's a strange parallel of
Ship of Theseus in which Corbeau injures her fingers by touching one to the slime at the double quincunx where Vevoda had tested his weapons (p. 157).