...When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well.
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
30
Just down the street from the local サミット (Samitto - Summit) supermarket there is a surveillance camera in front of the Kōban (neighborhood police station). Seeing the round dome of the camera housing nestled discreetly amongst the streetlights got me thinking about how the villainous HAL 9000 computer from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001 looks almost exactly the same. I once saw HAL living in a parking garage in Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California in 2003 when he migrated out of the film and into the real world (if we consider Disneyland Park as a part of the real world – or is it an intermediate step for migratory characters from films?). So, now HAL possibly lives in Takinogawa. I am curious if HAL was still capable of reading lips in 2003 as in the film and if it understood what I was conspiratorially communicating to it in that inky Californian parking garage at the end of the day.
...When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well.
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
...When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well.
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
