I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital. - Peter Greenaway

Are these clues? Which ones are important? Which ones are incidental? Which ones are circumstantial?

A woman materialises behind Prospero -- leaning lightly on the back of his chair -- she is alternately a Titianesque nude and then the Vesalius figure -- flayed … she leans lightly over and kisses Prospero on the cheek. The kiss leaves a blood-red mark on his withered cheek. Prospero shivers.

The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness.