AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

[Ande]

I think that it is a scene from a movie--but I can't quite recall which 
one...or maybe a Monty python sketch, an archetypal image for sure:  in 
a more innocent day the couple seeking shelter from the rain descending 
from above, later, from the disapproving morals, and "the all seeing 
eye" of surveillance....

mhayes at asiaaccess.net.th wrote:

>When I read the paragraph below, I thought it was refering to some
>Impressionist painting. I am probably totally wrong, but I have got some
>memory of a painting of a guy in a bowler hat, with a camera and folded
>tripod under his arm, running with this half naked woman. Kinda Touluse
>Lautrec? Or perhaps I'm just making up stuff and adding it into
>Manet's 'Luncheon on the Grass'?
>Mike H
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>"The duo appeared to be making for a nearby patch of woods, now and
>then casting apprehensive looks upward at the enormous gasbag of the
>descending Inconvenience, quite as if it were some giant eyeball,
>perhaps that of Society itself, ever scrutinizing from above, in a
>spirit of constructive censure. But by the time Lindsay could remove
>the optical instrument from the moist hands of Miles Blundell [...]
>the indecorous couple had vanished among the foliage, as presently
>would this sector of the Republic into the falling darkness." (AtD,
>Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 13)
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>I'd say that last clause is something of a concealed weapon casually
>revealed.  Made the back of my neck prickle.  On its face it just means
>it's getting dark, but the way it's written, and the way it's dropped
>on the ground like a glove or a rose or a letter, give it a more
>sinister weight.
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