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Founded:1996

Headquarters:Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Website Link(s):[www.camera-obscura.net Home Page]

Label(s)

• Andmoresound
• Elefant
• Merge

Genre(s)

• Twee Pop
• Indie Pop

RIYL

• Belle and Sebastian
• Boy Least Likely To

Band Members

• John Henderson
• Nigel Baillie
• Tracyanne Campbell
• Gavin Dunbar
• Kenny McKeeve
• Carey Lander
• Lee Thomson

Includes Members of

• Lightning

Band Biography

Discography

Albums

• Biggest, Bluest Hi-Fi
• Underachievers, Please Try Harder
• Let's Get Out Of This Country

EPs

• [[EP:Artist|EP]]

Singles

• Teenager
• Eighties Fan
• Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
• Let's Get Out of This Country

or

• [[A-Side:Artist|A-Side ]] / [[B-side 1:Artist|B-side 1]] / [[B-side 2:Artist|B-side 2]]

Appears On

Compilations

• [[Compilation Title:Label|Compilation Title]]

Soundtracks

• [[Soundtrack Title:Soundtrack|Soundtrack TItle]]

Mix CDs

• [[Mix CD Title]]

Radio Shows

• [[Radio Show Title]]

Further Reading

(links to websites, label biographies, fansites, books, periodicals or any additional information on the artist)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Camera Obscura
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	59
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companions:	Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor
Enemy:	Sabbath, The Octaves, Angel-Maker
Setting:	Earth Wales, Dartmoor and Capel Gorast, late July and early August, 1893
Author:	Lloyd Rose
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	July, 2002
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53857-0
Previous Story:	History 101
Following Story:	Time Zero

Publisher’s Summary

The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he’d always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...

The Doctor’s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.

Characters

• The Doctor
  • Nearly dies when a sandbag is dropped (from great height) onto his chest, crushing his remaining heart and smashing his ribs so hard they poke out his back onto the floor.
  • The Doctor tricks the Angel-Maker into stabbing him through the heart (in order to venture into Death’s realm).
• Fitz Kreiner
• Anji Kapoor
• Sabbath (alias Mr G.K. Thursday)
• Angel-Maker (aka Elizabeth Kelly)
  • She’s a time sensitive.
• Death
• Nathaniel Chilteren

References

• The Jonah, Sabbath’s time vessel is mentioned.
• The Doctor travels down into the realms of Death.
• Chilitern’s time machine works along principles of Temporal Interferometry.

Notes

• At the conclusion of Camera Obscura with the removal of the Doctor’s old blackened heart from Sabbath’s chest, the Doctor is able to ‘grow’ a new one.

Continuity

• The Doctor speaks of Sabbath’s previous ploys including Station One Anachrophobia and Barcelona History 101.

• When the Doctor is crushed by the sandbags it is his connection to Sabbath, through his second heart that was removed in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street that Sabbath implanted in his own body that keeps him from dying.

• Fitz goes to a history lecture on Siberia and meets explorer George Williamson, the expedition appears in Time Zero.

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Camera Obscura
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Camera Obscura

From Lostpedia

Laughter in the Dark

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill Co

Publish Date

1932

ISBN

0679724508

Publisher's summary

Charlie takes the book from Sawyer's stash as his reflection appears just above the book. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

Hurley takes the book from Charlie and begins to read it ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

In Lost

• Charlie found the book amongst Sawyer's stash. Hurley is later shown reading the it. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes").

Trivia

General

• The novel was originally published in 1932, under the Russian title: Камера Обскура. It was translated into English as Camera Obscura in 1936 and then released again with the name Laughter in the Dark in 1938.
• The novels history is complicated. It was first written in Russian by Nabokov and published in 1932 and 1933. It was later translated into English by Winifred Roy. Nabokov was tormented by the translation and was contracted to re-translate it.
  • The contract read that he was to "translate the said novel into the English Language"; the irony being that the version he was translating was in fact an English rewrite of his original book.

Literary techniques

• The book's beginning two paragraphs comprise a prologue, an epilogue and a summary, giving away the ending at the start "so as to not be what motivates the reader". (Flashbacks)  (Flashforwards)
  • This non-linear storytelling is something the novel holds in common with Lost.
• Hurley is seen with the book. The book's name, "Laughter in the Dark", alludes to Hurley's less serious character.

Shared themes

• A passage in the book makes references to polar bears in a tropical location, a theme also present in Lost:

See also

• Irony
• Literary works