E.T.A. supper with Stice and Hal — "If you could open Stice's head…"
If you could open Stice's head you'd see a wheel inside another wheel, gears and cogs being widgeted into place.
Context
Stice at dinner, brooding over the moving-furniture business: thinking itself pictured as nested annular machinery, a wheel inside a wheel. (The Ezekiel echo comes free of charge.)