Wait, since Chloe’s theory was a TVTropes reference (see pedanterrific’s comment) could the vrooping thing be too?
Oh my Bayes, it’s completely obvious:
Clearly visible from where Harry had perched himself on his chair’s arm was a truncated-conical object, like a cone with its top snipped off, slowly spinning around a pulsating central light which it shaded but did not obscure.
It’s a lampshade. But what was Eliezer lampshading?
ETA: Obvious in retrospect, I should say. Which doesn’t actually mean obvious at all.
and each time the inner light pulsated, the assembly made a vroop-vroop-vroop sound that sounded oddly distant, muffled like it was coming from behind four solid walls, even though the spinning-conical-section thingy was only a meter or two away.
Is your edit saying that (in retrospect) what is being lampshaded is obvious or that it’s obvious that it is a lampshade? If the former, what is behing lampshaded?
Edit: You’re obviously talking about latter. Oops.
Wait, since Chloe’s theory was a TVTropes reference (see pedanterrific’s comment) could the vrooping thing be too?
Oh my Bayes, it’s completely obvious:
It’s a lampshade. But what was Eliezer lampshading?
ETA: Obvious in retrospect, I should say. Which doesn’t actually mean obvious at all.
This feels like reading too much into it, but is
supposed to be something about the fourth wall?
Is your edit saying that (in retrospect) what is being lampshaded is obvious or that it’s obvious that it is a lampshade? If the former, what is behing lampshaded?
Edit: You’re obviously talking about latter. Oops.