"Who is she? A heliotype diva, broken free? Or the runaway daugh­ter of a swaggering, bilious lord? Or just one of those women from Paris... And where does her money come from? Slightly vulgar thought...  
She does have the dog, though, and it's pointless for her to deny it. Some sleek-haired Great Dane. With a cold nose and warm ears. Still snowing, too, Kern thought haphazardly. And, in my suitcase - a spring seemed to pop open, with a clink, in his brain - I have a Parabellum..."  
Vladimir Nabokov. Wingstroke.txt. Страница 9. Kern said with a frown...www.alltxt.org.ua/read.php?id=4176&page=9

 

163: Robert Smithson - A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey
epigraphs:

"He laughed softly. I know. There's no way out. Not through the Barrier. Maybe that isn't what I want, after all. But this--this-' He stared at the Monument. 'It seems all wrong sometimes. I just can't explain it. It's the whole city. It makes me feel haywire. Then I get these flashes-'  "
-Henry Kuttner, Jesting Pilot

"... today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. "
-Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

" On Saturday, September 30, 1967, 1 went to the Port Authority Building on 41st Street and 8th Avenue. I bought a copy of the New York Times and a Signet paperback called Earthworks by Brain W. Aldiss. Next I went to ticket booth 21 and purchased a one-way ticket to Passaic. After that I went up to the upper bus level (platform 173) and boarded the number 30 bus of the Inter-City Transportation Co....Across the river in Rutherford one could hear the faint voice of a P. A. system and the weak cheers of a crowd at a football game. Actually, the landscape was no landscape, but "a particular kind of heliotype" (Nabokov), a kind of self destroying postcard world of failed immortality and oppressive grandeur. I had been wandering in a moving picture that I couldn't quite picture, but just as I became perplexed, I saw a green sign that explained everything:
YOUR HIGHWAY TAXES 21
AT WORK
Federal Highway
Trust Funds
2,867,000
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Bureau of Public Roads
State Highway Funds
2,867,000
New Jersey State Highway Dept.