The Scalpel

The Scalpel · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Surgeon, the motif is identified as “The Scalpel.” He remembers his patient dying on the operating table. The operation is in an hour.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.