The screens of the broken television sets in the electronics shop began to flicker. Every midnight for the past five months I’d waited for this scene: several seconds of electrical humming, followed by a powerful flood of light—yellow, red, blue green—a pulsating energy, then the whistling of wind accompanying a silky female voice singing, the cue for the appearance of a giant eye in each of the broken TV screens. Giant, all-seeing cathode eyes. [...]