V-2nd: Come one, come all: get your picture taken with the author

[Mark Kohut]

Now, the first scene in TRP's novels involving a camera. 

First and least: see how this scene is echoed over 40 years later
in AtD in this way.....unclothed, half-unclothed woman around a camera--
seen from above running from photographer in AtD....

Here, "Click, went Teflon's Leica" interrupts intercourse right before the
Big Moment.....Profane goes after Teflon angrily.

I suggest Teflon's voyeurism in this scene--another sick character of The Whole Sick Crew--
 and the AtD scene put down on paper, embody, at one level or two, TRPs satire of 1) invasion of 
privacy of what should be two people's most intimate act   and, perhaps, generalizing to how
important privacy is for the good life.          See TRPs life.

  2) taking photographs are like avoiding the life
that is being lived, being a voyeur rather than fully human. 
"I prefer to watch" as that sexual perversion can be summed up. 

Anyone?

Why Teflon as his name? Life doesn't stick to him; it sticks to his photographs. I am reminded among other
things in his novels, of the words in GR about the 'scumblings of time' or suchlike---you can look it up---which
is a positive in his vision, imho.