CoL49 (5) Mirror, Mirror [PC 81]

[Robin Landseadel]

> Robin: I'm not making a declaration here that the overarching  
> subject of
> CoL49 is MKULTRA's "Operation Midnight Climax", but there are echos of
> that in this scene and there is a peculiar quality of nocturnal
> psychedelia in Oedipa's journey through San Francisco's night-town.
> ______
> Rich: one sort've cringes when one thinks how many of these secret  
> wacked
> out projects have never been made public or are going on right now.
> these things tend to be self-perpetuating
>
> look at obama and the now head of the CIA Panetta--they were all for
> transparency and high morality; just a few months in power, they are
> now playing a different tune

I recall some mirror/sex/film/spying conjunction in Gravity's Rainbow,  
a work rife with CIA references. Perhaps I should dredge up some some  
weird scenes from that goldmine.