Annotation - Chapter 6, Page 34

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  • (34:8) "The Right syd uv him had the nek & hed the Left syd uv him had his cok & bauls"

Not only is the Shining Man torn apart, but specifically his head has been disconnected from his sex—a fairly blunt allegory for the intellectualizing and sterilizing aspects of science.