«He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of Yeates and Son, pricing the fieldglasses. Or will I drop into old Harris’s and have a chat with young Sinclair? Wellmannered fellow. Probably at his lunch. Must get those old glasses of mine set right. Goerz lenses six guineas. Germans making their way everywhere. Sell on easy terms to capture trade. Undercutting. Might chance on a pair in the railway lost property office. Astonishing the things people leave behind them in trains and cloakrooms. What do they be thinking about? Women too. Incredible. Last year travelling to Ennis had to pick up that farmer’s daughter’s bag and hand it to her at Limerick junction. Unclaimed money too. There’s a little watch up there on the roof of the bank to test those glasses by.»
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ULYSSES - Chap. 8 - Lestrygonians
Flashed on lots of images when reading this paragraph.
The watch on the roof of the bank for testing the glasses made me think of the glass man’s video camera in Amelie and also the proprietor’s photo series in that movie by Paul Auster and Jarmusch (I can’t remember the name.) Hidden places populated with information, systems.
