AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

[barbie gaze]

The scene is brilliant comedy, fast and funny, and stuffed with historical
reference, so I'm not seeing the allusion to Emerson or to a transparent
eyeball;  the boys tripping over and tangled in hemp, in language uses and
abuses, in the work and its chains of command, in their petty internal
struggles while the ship descends dangerously, then the lads' libidos are
focused by the spyglass, the photographer and his lovely subject caught in
the collective gaze of boy spies in the sky till the ship seems a giant eye
gazing on their art making and they run for the woods. But, I could be way
off here.
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