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The Hal-Stice match begins (pp. 654–655)

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All the E.T.A. players loved the Show Courts 6–9 because they loved to be watched, and also hated the Show Courts because the transom’s crow’s-nested shadow covered the north halves of the courts around noon and all through the P.M. wheeled around gradually east like some giant hooded shadowed moving presence, brooding. […] Another advantage of the Lung was that it afforded no overhead view, which was one more reason why staff waited as long as possible before its erection.

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The being-watched economy stated flat: the Show Courts are loved for spectation and hated for its price — playing all afternoon inside the watcher's literal shadow. The Lung is the counter-architecture, valued by staff precisely because it "afforded no overhead view": E.T.A. runs on a calibrated dose of being seen. (The brooding shadow-presence itself, and Schtitt's head's shadow freezing younger kids, reads as ghosts-wraiths texture — logged in Flags, not adopted here.)

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