The Madame Psychosis show — "He treats the lavish Tatsuoka fringe-FM-band…"
He treats the lavish Tatsuoka fringe-FM-band tuner in the living room of the Headmaster’s House like kids of three generations past, listening the way other kids watch TP, opting for mono and sitting right up close to one of the speakers with his head cocked dog-like, listening, staring into that special pocket of near-middle distance reserved for the serious listener. […] Avril has some auditory thing about broadcast sound and gets the howling fantods from any voice that does not exit a living corporeal head
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The reception end of the Madame Psychosis circuit: Mario the filmmaker choosing radio over TP, and Avril phobic about exactly what the medium is — a voice with no visible body. The family that made the book's most lethal visual entertainment splits over disembodied sound; the veil-logic of Joelle's broadcast retreat is defined here by its most devoted listener and its one in-house objector.