Joelle's last walk to Notkin's party — "The whole and the partial. The…"
The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type One, always rather Two, one upside-down in a convex lens.
Context
Joelle's private metaphysics arrives in lens-optics: every pair in the world is one thing and its inverted image through curved glass — performer/audience, deformed/beautiful, hidden/open, every polarity she personally straddles. The most compact statement in the book of optics as ontology.