As far as I can tell the logic goes something like this: >!Having deduced that Belasco was motivated by ego, Fischer intuits that he might be compensating for something. Florence's phrase "terminations and extremities" implies "cutting off limbs", and "if thy right eye offend thee" adds the idea of despising a body part so much that you get rid of it... Yeah, it's a stretch.!<
treaderofthedust t1_isytihd wrote
Reply to Spoiler question about the ending of Hell House by Richard Matheson by dadamssg
As far as I can tell the logic goes something like this: >!Having deduced that Belasco was motivated by ego, Fischer intuits that he might be compensating for something. Florence's phrase "terminations and extremities" implies "cutting off limbs", and "if thy right eye offend thee" adds the idea of despising a body part so much that you get rid of it... Yeah, it's a stretch.!<