> If the author truly doesn't understand the meaning of a pierced eyebrow, then the logical first course of action would be to assign no meaning to a pierced ey

> If the author truly doesn't understand the meaning of a pierced eyebrow, then the logical first course of action would be to assign no meaning to a pierced eyebrow and see where that takes them. If you see something you don't understand meaning of, just think that it actually doesn't have any meaning, got you. By the way, this will take you nowhere because if something has no meaning then that's the end of the story, no more investigation is needed or even possible.