Joelle's Too Much Fun at Molly Notkin's party (p. 233)
‘—way it can be film qua film. Comstock says if it even exists it has to be something more like an aesthetic pharmaceutical. Some beastly post-annular scopophiliacal vector. Suprasubliminals and that. Some kind of abstractable hypnosis, an optical dopamine-cue. A recorded delusion. Duquette says he’s lost contact with three colleagues. He said a good bit of Berkeley isn’t answering their phone.’
Context
The samizdat's first academic theory, overheard at a party by the woman whose face it's made of: not film qua film but an "optical dopamine-cue," lethality located specifically in the optics. Comstock and Duquette are the scholars behind n.24's filmography apparatus, so this is the oeuvre's own annotators speculating about its terminal entry — while Berkeley quietly stops answering the phone.