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The Madame Psychosis show (vi)

quote

the vitreally inflated balloon-eyes, deorbited and hung by twined blue cords from the second floor’s optic chiasmae to flank the wheelchair-accessible front ramp, take a bit of getting used to

Context

The brain-shaped Union's front door is flanked by giant hanging eyeballs — the building that houses the radio show is itself an optical apparatus, eyes deorbited and staring. Rickey's architecture literalizes spectation at the threshold of the one medium that can't see.

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