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eyed Scandinavian good look. She justly prided herself on her Smorgasbord table and it was obvious, from the plans for the new house, that they entertained a lot and were exceedingly popular. In the remarkably short span of five years, in fact, they had astonishingly won themselves a prominent place in the rather rigid social structure of this conservative Southern city. They both served on the right community board; their children went to the best schools; the family made a stolid showing at church on the appropriate holidays; and they even belonged to the exclusive Hidden Trout Country Club.

Dr. C's life seemed busy and absorbing, efficiently organized. His one extra-curricular activity was the movie camera. It was more than a hobby; it seemed almost a passion. And many of the most specific points in the program for the new house which had been given the architects dealt with problems of movie projection--the place and size of the projector [[strikethrough]] machine [[/strikethrough]], the distance to the screen, the size of the screen and so on.

He used the camera like a scientist rather than an artist. It was a documentary interest: the record concerned him more than the effect. He seemed to treat every subject with the same thorough, investigatory technique. When the architects visited him, they were shown his films of Athens--carefully enumerating each minute [[strikethrough]] stage [[/strikethrough]] step of the voyage from the arrival of the boat to its departure. They sat, their horror frozen into hypnotized fascination, as the blood-spurting, tear-dropping, blue-smudging, scalpel-cutting, thread-tying, eye-ball-sightlessly-moving, Bosch-surrealist-nightmare-like reels of telescopic close-ups of intricate eye operations (to the accompaniment of stirring Bach concerti) were run off for them.