While a bat, like even the lowly lobster, has a biological self, it has no selfy self to speak of — no Center of Narrative Gravity

Structurally, the two most variant scenes (outside of Scene ii) are Scenes 3 and 4 in which the compiler works out the variant subplot.

But Lanfrank, being a privado to the pope's projects […] might antedate this objection against Thomas , using it for the present as a rub to retard him

Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction.