BEg2 ch24 anybody know the visual reference?

[Michael Bailey]

Post-coital view:
“Out the window, instead of a sweeping panorama of lights, each
illuminating a different Big Apple drama…”

—- this seems like a reference to something, I thought maybe the opener for
Naked City, but that’s just a skyline drawing


“… there’s a modest low-rise view, water tanks poised like antique
skyrockets on rooftops…”

- yes!

“…whose last waterproofing got mopped on by immigrant hands generations
dead, light from other windows mediated by nailed-up bedcovers, bookshelves
full of wrecked paperbacks, the backsides of TV sets, shades pulled all the
way down tenancies ago and never raised.”

All the things standing in the way of a little casual voyeurism! And from
the inhabitants looking out.

- all the barriers people erect from others getting too wise to their
doings, and to keep the world at bay.

Windust apparently brazen enough not to feel the need to conceal. Worldly
wise and callous enough not to need to filter his view outwards either.