Hidden Camera

[Jhildt at aol.com]

<Here goes mine own: the postWW2 world's dominant 
reality-manufacturing device (24 frames per second) is the movie, and the
twenty-four hour movie under the rug (wig? what?) I see as both television
and the equivalent of the "man's office in our head". Anyway, we are having
our life defined for us in the movi(ng) theatre, forgetting that this is only
so much cosmetics, as the gun, the rocket, the violence of Their structure is
always there, and could break through the roof at any moment. >
                
                                         - Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt

Nice reading!  

Get's into the whole "What's reality but the perception  of reality?"
question.  And I find that one hard to wriggle out of.  Is there any reality
apart from "perceived" reality?  If so, what does it matter, and to whom?

One of my pet thoughts of late is that if the first 3 dimensions are spatial,
and the 4th is temporal, is the 5th (and an almost infinite number more) not
the "dimension" of perception, the "perspective of being perceived"?

The passage you quote:

< "... the two separate worlds - one always includes a camera 
     somewhere, and the other always includes a gun, one is 
     make-believe, one is real" (Vineland, 241) >

brings to mind one of my (several) all-time, favorite passages in GR which
begins and  ends with these words:

"The camera follows as she moves deliberately nowhere longlegged about the
rooms, an adolescent wideness and hunching to the shoulders, her hair not
bluntly Dutch at all, but secured in a modish upsweep with an old, tarnished
crown"  (92 and 113).

She, Katje, is being watched by, among others, us.

                                                 J.