C of L49 "trapped at the centre of some intricate crystal"

[Mark Kohut]

p.92. She.."spooked at the sunlight pouring in all the windows. as if she had been trapped at the centre of 
some intricate crystal."  
 
"A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions."
"inorganic matter, if free to take that physical state in which it is most stable, tends to crystallize."---wikipedia (both)
TRP continuing his animate/inanimate vision with this metaphor?   Which would show O 'trapped' here in the world around Thoth's? That American tower. 

Most famous "crystal" in TRPs work that I can think of, is, of course, that Crystal Palace that has metaphorically fallen
early in GR. Named after that European Exhibition of science/technology in the 1800s. (You can look it up on the wiki, elsewhere).  DP has reminded that a TV---"filthy machine"--has crystals.
 
p.92 "An American writer, Alan Harrington, who, in "Life in the Crystal Palace" gives a subtle and penetrating picture of life in a big American corporation"---Erich Fromm in an Afterword to a 1984 paperback edition of "1984"!
 
This book was quite popular, still selling in a mass market paperback into the mid-sixties, at least. Harrington also wrote a couple-three novels, one published in 1959 and a cult fave for awhile called "The Revelations [sic, that L49 word] of Dr. Modesto". Which begins with someone getting a letter! 
 
>From an online blogger's review in 2008: "In the interim, he meets with his boss, Fred Purdy, who tells him that his job and his life are completely unimportant, and that nothing in the world had a higher purpose. The best approach, he counseled, was to embrace “unbelief,” which “frees a man for action.” Treat life like a game, and have fun! This doesn’t help Hingham much, and when he finally receives his copy of "The Revelations of Dr. Modesto", he eagerly devours it."