"giant bloodshot eyeball", p14

[Charles Albert]

The eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg from The Great Gatsby gazing in mute
judgment over the Valley of Ashes....

love,
cfa

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pynchon loves this image as we know from AtD.
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> 1) 'giant eyeball of society' is a phrase from Emerson's "Nature", right
> Alice?, solo over to you............
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> 2) an eyeball, not bloodshot, is part of the logo of the Pinkerton
> Detective agency, where Hammett worked and, of course, nationally famous.
> "We never sleep" is the motto under the eyeball.
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> 3) Look at a dollar bill. Google some of the 'myths', including the
> illuminati, I believe.
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> 4) Love that this one is bloodshot, as the eyeballs of our best noir
> detectives might be!...another f'in' hilarious homage.
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