"He thinks he's hallucinating" m

[Michael Bailey]

>
> it wasn't my idea.  I'm brainstorming and looking for corroboration,
> because, well, I get more of a kick out of doing that than out of
> ruling things out.

but also because the idea met my standards -
a) surveillance is important in Pynchon (eye in the sky; snitching in
Vineland; paranoia in GR)
b) Police goings-on, as here embodied by Bigfoot, important in IV,
often entail wiring somebody up
c) things you don't catch first time thru - how do I know this isn't
one of those?  anyroad a good reason to look thru the book again and
relish