Come in, don't be shy

After all the events mentioned above, the accidental and the abrupt took the days of Sinclair Lurch Noctes by assault:

that evening, while he ate his ensaladilla rusa, watching the news on his "Zenith" TV, the programme suddenly got dissolved in the cathodic cubicles of the screen, and his own image appeared broadcasted

on the TV, Sinclair Noctes ate his meal, while he observed a screen where Sinclair Noctes ate his meal, which showed a screen with Sinclair Noctes eating his meal, which showed a screen with Sinclair Noctes eating his meal, which showed a screen with Sinclair Noctes eating his meal.




The sequence was a patarata of infinitesimal rebounds



the superstitious brain of Noctes deemed it a magna of illusion, una magia.


Since that day, 10 of November of 1968, Sinclair Noctes never saw anything on a TV, but his own image in real time.




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Anguished, Noctes finally decided to consult his friend, A. Bouchard, medic and specialist in phenomena of pataphysical inference and mesmerism, possibly the only person who wouldn't deem him insane.

After long months of previous studies on the bodily structure of Noctes, Bouchard prepared an experiment -feverishly- at his studio, in the suburbs of Ch..... (Lanier Street Nº 1...), in order to find the causal agent of the phenomenon which, at first, he deemed exclusively a retinal aberration in the patient.



The day 5 of January of 1970 the experiment started, at 7:00 PM, in the cabinet of Noctes

the scientist connected two platinum wires to the back brain of Noctes, while Noctes observed a TV screen.



Three hours later, after many failed attempts the signal was finally visible: Bouchard could see through the Noctes' eyes by means of a second screen or monitor, using closed-circuit television.


Unexpectedly, in the very bottom of the image, where the set of refractory clones of Noctes got almost lost in their own multiplication, a new face was seen, extremely distant, almost imperceptible, replicated ad infinitum

the multiplied face of a stranger observing himself, in the exact, opposite direction of Noctes



observing himself from the inside of the screen, in interminable sequence

a multiplied new face that Noctes couldn't see, because only Bouchard could see it.



Intrigued and alarmed, A. Bouchard connected an external lens to the monitor, to magnify the image, and see












as the image was progressively enlarged, focusing on that second multiplied face, a scream full of horror and repugnance escaped from the dilated glottis of A. Bouchard when, on the screen, A. Bouchard observed himself from the inside observing himself, in an unlimited spatial extent of duplicates.