Hal on Himself's audience films (pp. 395–396)
Sitting here preacher-hatted, with a mouth full of multilayered baklava, Hal knows perfectly well that Mario gets his fetish for cartridges about puppets and entr’actes and audiences from their late father. Himself, during his anticonfluential middle period, went through this subphase of being obsessed with the idea of audiences’ relationships with various sorts of shows. Hal doesn’t even want to think about the grim one about the carnival of eyeballs.
Context
The inheritance thesis stated flat out, in Hal's head, while the ONANtiad plays: puppets, entr'actes, and audiences all come from Himself's "audience-obsessed" anticonfluential subphase — narratorial confirmation of what the 081 entries above could only infer. The unwatchable eyeball-carnival film Hal flinches from carries [n.154]; the whole compact filmography that follows hangs off this paragraph.