Quote Originally Posted by Ranger_Strider View Post
I'm just finishing W&G for the first time (reading DTS), and I think I can help:

Yes, the Coos witch watches as one of the local well-to-do women sends away her daughter on an errand so that she may pursue her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which strangely compels her to strip naked and lick THE CORNERS of the floor while down on all fours.
It serves to show the horror of such an affliction not only in the fear of being caught in the act of gratifying the urge, but also in the perverse joy Rhea feels in being privvy to it, via the glass.
I think it is very reminiscent of the evil proprietor in the Needful Things shop who seems to know everyone's dirty secrets. Perhaps he kept the glass for a time among his very special items.
Wow... Leland Gaunt may have had the glass in his possession... I never even thought of that... what an amazingly interesting concept... I wonder if even Stephen King thought of the possible connection...