The Seventh Veil (pages 395-422) Summary

The big day is at hand and when Patsy and Ellen Cherry arrive at the restaurant hours before it opens and find a line of people are waiting to get in. The crowd is split between people there to watch football on the big TV, and fans of young Salome. The belly dancer arrives and begins her dance at 3:00 p.m., the exact time as kick off.

Shockingly, the first veil dropped is the one covering her pelvic region, exposing her vagina. As each veil is dropped, Ellen Cherry and the rest of the crowd begin to receive ideas and thoughts through an inner voice. They are the same lessons and ideas the narrator attaches to veils 1-6. Finally, the young Salome takes away the seventh and final veil, the one covering her face. When...