VLVL2 (9.5): "'Laws' of Perspective"

[Dave Monroe]

"Although the street were irregular and steeply
pitched, the entryways and setbacks and forking
corners, all angles ordinarily hidden, in fact, were
somehow clearly visible from up here at this one
window--naive, direct, no shadows, no hiding places,
every waking outdoor sleeper, empty container, lost
key, bottle, scrap of papr in the history of the dark
shift just being relieved, was turned exactly to thes
windows from which Takeshi and DL looked down at the
first yawners and stirrers, begun now to disengage
from public surfaces.... 'They seem so close ... can
they see us?'
   "'It's a trick--of the morning light!'  Had they
continued to watch from here as the sun rose, they
would have seen the town begin to change, the corners
of things to rotate slowly, the shadows come in to
flip some of the angles inside out as 'laws' of
perspective were reestablished, so that by 9:00 A.M.
or so, the daytime version of what was meant to be
seen out the perculiar window would all be in place."
(VL, Ch. 9, p. 173)


Tres cubiste ...

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/cubism.html

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/earlyC20th/cubism.htm

Tres expressioniste ...

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/9078/cindex.htm

http://www.geocities.com/classicmoviescripts/script/qCALIGARI.htm

Tres panoptique ...

http://users.rcn.com/mackey/thesis/panpic.html

http://users.rcn.com/mackey/thesis/panopticon.html

http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/impact/f96/Projects/dengberg/

http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/Lyon.html

And anyone here see Dark City (1998) ...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0118929/

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