Quickly, to the Panopticon!

[sacredchao23]

While I find Sean Grass's article "The Moonstone, Narrative Failure, and the Pathology of the State" less than convincing, it did render up this awesome turn of phrase: "Betteridge may regard 'looking about' as a genteel affliction--a hereditary arisocratic disease, something like Panoptical gout-- but staring in the novel is a widespread and socially sanctioned practice, less a colonal infection than an inborn condition of English life" (105).

Panoptical gout!