To P or not to P is no longer the Vection

[alice wellintown]

A wonderful essay by Guy Reynolds on Fitzgerald's Gatsby discusses the
"Constant Flicker" on the American Scene and how that 'flicker" became
part of Modern consciousness. It's the flickering lights produced when
natural or artificial light passes through the steel girders that form
the frames (as in 24fps) in the 59th Street Bridge when Gatsby & Co.
pass over it from the Valley of Ashes to Manhattan, and it's the same
frame, the one that we here Catch, Catch, Catch, in the
theatre/theater, not quite at 24 but at 22, in the Projector, when
photography, in the flipping or skimming through a magazine or channel
surfing or zapping catches humanity in Poe's Maelstrom  as described
by McLuhan in the Mechanical Bride, and when a new tyranny, slouching
toward Bethlehem, is framed, by  Steiglitz, Strand, Sheeler.
Sssssttttshshhsheeeeeeeeeeetttt that metallic Vection of the Chrysler
Building shot in shards through those Hopper-esque atmospheres where
Nighthawks lean over counters and men, reduced to shadows beyond the
frames of Morgan Guaranty waste away at the Tombs.

We read V.  at least two, maybe three times.

24fp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p

59th st. bridge frames:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1TMPf7H9JHA/SFp3JlGTrzI/AAAAAAAABOU/2iKFA_DEs8s/s400/Neighborhood.jpg

Valley of Ashes: http://www.city-journal.org/article02.php?aid=1524

Catch 22 and Gravity too:
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/mccarron24.htm

Poe & Mcluahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_aIdD6oAew

Morgan frame:  http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/strand.wallstreet.jpg

Hopper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nighthawks.jpg

Reynolds http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=englishfacpubs