Fresno Quik and the birth of Subsidized Time (p. 439)
[Mario’s aural background becomes something with a brisk cornet, and there’s some glove-muffled finger-snapping from J.G.F.C., who’s lapsed into a visionary reverie.]
Context
Mid-Cabinet-scene, the one stage direction in the screenplay transcript that names the filmmaker: "Mario's aural background" — the soundtrack as an authorial choice we're watching him make. The film-within-the-novel briefly shows its seams, the auteur's hand visible inside his own text.