VLVL2 (9.5): "There's a Hidden Camera Somewhere, Right?"

[Dave Monroe]

   "'There's a hidden camera somwhere, right?  This is
a commercial?'  The question rang almost preyerfully
in these surroundings, the moonlit
childhood-picture-book clouds out the rounded toy
windows, the lambent fall of electric light on faces
and documents, the affectless music in the earphones,
the possibly otherworldly origins of Takeshi's
madness...." (VL, Ch. 9, pp. 158-9)


"There's a hidden camera somewhere, right?"

http://www.candidcamera.com/

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-8778/

"The telescreen received and transmitted
simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the
level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;
moreover, so long as he remained within the field of
vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be
seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of
knowing whether you were being watched at any given
moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought
Police plugged in on any individual wire was
guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched
everybody all the time. But at any rate they could
plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to
live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in
the assumption that every sound you made was
overheard, and except in darkness, every movement
scrutinised."

http://www.spy.org.uk/1984.htm


"moonlit childhood-picture-book clouds out the rounded
toy windows"

"He's trying to do in his books what Warren Beatty did
in the film 'Dick Tracy.' The characters in his books
are all cartoon characters. He writes in frames just
like a comic strip. He's writing cartoons instead of
drawing them. They're not two dimensional but
holograms. They're real people who go in and out of
being cartoons. They go back and forth between the
real world and the cartoon world."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9610&msg=7135&sort=date

Oh, Terrance ...


"the lambent fall of electric light"

Main Entry: lam·bent 
Pronunciation: 'lam-b&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin lambent-, lambens, present participle
of lambere to lick -- more at LAP
Date: 1647
1 : playing lightly on or over a surface : FLICKERING
2 : softly bright or radiant
3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of
expression

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
English chemist and physicist who created classical
field theory. He was the first to isolate benzene and
he synthesized the first chlorocarbons. His other
discoveries include electromagnetic induction, the
laws of electrolysis, and the rotation of polarized
light by magnetism. He's considered the greatest of
all experimental physicists; portrait of in the Tate
Gallery in London, "eyes [...] so lambent, sinister,
so educated" 584

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/f.html

   "That night the lawyer Metzger showed up. He turned
out to be so good-looking that Oedipa thought at first
They, somebody up there, were putting her on. It had
to be an actor. He stood at her door, behind him the
oblong pool shimmering silent in a mild diffusion of
light from the nighttime sky, saying, 'Mrs Maas,' like
a reproach. His enormous eyes, lambent, extravagantly
lashed, smiled out at her wickedly; she looked around
him for reflectors, microphones, camera cabling, but
there was only himself and a debonair bottle of French
Beaujolais, which he claimed to've smuggled last year
into California, this rollicking lawbreaker, past the
frontier guards."

http://rikeko.free.fr/data/archiv/txt/nouvelles/pynchon-49.htm

http://textz.gnutenberg.net/textz/pynchon_thomas_the_crying_of_lot_49.txt

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