GR P1 S1: "a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace."

[Tim Strzechowski]

Sorta reminds me of the opening sequence in Orson Welles's _Citizen Kane_, 
with the dropped snow globe.

http://www.ballyclarehigh.co.uk/curriculum/media_st_site/globe.gif



> He's afraid of the way the glass will fall- soon-
> it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace.
> But coming down in total blackout, without
> one glint of light, only great invisible crashing.
>
> Well, it's about gravity, after all, and this, the first of three
> "fallings" in this section, all filtered, in various ways, through
> the sensitive consciousness of Pirate. I imagine that they must
> form a triad, somehow- maybe a chord of the dominant
> theme?
>