I wanted to pull away from the strict visual metaphor of the tuning dial now and used the narrator's choice of words as a prompt; the 'oddysey' through the space (on the dial, through the universe, through experience) literally conjures a ship for our voyage.

In retrospect, this seems a little random in context. I think that there is nothing particularly wrong with the ship image, but it doesn't persist for long enough to establish itself. I think that a more potent form of the same idea would have been to use a 'ship in a bottle' motif. This would have connoted message-carrying meaning to the ship, and reinforced its twin significance/insignificane. I could have also, with a substitution of thread for rigging, managed a correspondence to the 'needle' metaphor that is established in the 'tuning dial' section. The needle is oupr pilot and will tune the dial, trim our 'thread' rigging, and be the focal direction of our consciousness all at once.

Anyway, I lost out on that opportunity. But who knows what the rest might have been like with it?