Steeply's father and M*A*S*H (p. 642)
It was gradually obvious he was viewing his magnetic recordings of the program "MAS*H" throughout the night, probably over and over again, using a crude white plastic earplug to hide the noise, scribbling feverishly in his notebook.
Context
The obsession mature: taped episodes replayed all night, every night, in secret. A man rigging his own recursive loop decades before the samizdat — the Entertainment's victim-posture fully formed, with a sitcom in the cartridge slot.