The Madame Psychosis show (p. 184)
she says what she’s said for three years of midnights, an opening bit that Mario Incandenza, the least cynical person in the history of Enfield MA, across the river, listening faithfully, finds, for all its black cynicism, terribly compelling: Her silhouette leans and says ‘And Lo, for the Earth was empty of form, and void. ‘And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. ‘And We said: ‘Look at that fucker Dance.’
Context
The Madame Psychosis Hour's nightly Genesis-parody invocation — the signature of the radio leg of this theme's scope, and the sentence that binds performer to listener across the river: Joelle's black-cynical creation-of-light joke received by Mario as pure light. Creation myth as spectation joke: the first thing made is something to look at.