Cover art is Jennifer Lawrence meets John Christopher's Tripods?
Seems as if EAB would've agreed his frame story could've been handled a bit better[0], but as he did go to a sanatorium once prescribed, I guess my imputation of paranoia driving choice of island over institution had been apophenic[1]. Maybe he was just into it because all the rich kids at St Cyprian's used to summer (ca.1915?) in exotic[2] Scotland?
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Mv6gXqADM
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360500/#:~:tex...
[1] when did Sonia start working with IRD, anyway?
[2] two bits of information (decent bits, so we shan't mention Oliver Mellors!) as to what constituted "exotic" in postwar Britain: (a) Spaghetti Trees [1957], and (b) the first James Bond [1953] is set all the way across the Channel in "Royale-les-Eaux".
L: https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18204/1/PETSINIS_1995compressed.pdf
& As for the 3-fold gluing/halving (the collatz avemaria?) u might have missed the other retrospective https://minervawisdom.com/2019/06/20/ciceros-republic-the-cy...
(do they describe him as having had a normally small cerebellum, or abnormally?)
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=38488....