Gil meets Vic

Gil loves being on television. Wherever he can, he watches himself on a screen. He's found one screen in particular that reflects his every movement for a short period of time. His favorite part of watching himself on this television is that when he looks at himself on the screen he is able to convince himself that he isn't really looking at himself. The broadcast is in real time. He stares at this screen for a prescribed three hours a week gradually, slowly, incrementally giving himself over to the delusion that who he sees is someone else. He describes it as his "I" watching his other "i". He even made a little typographic piece of art commemorating this disassociation. In this way, Gil is his own brother's keeper. He is watching over himself--audience and actor. It's actually an elegantly economical solution. When Gil really gets in the zone, he claims to be able to strike a pose that looks like he is looking straight ahead even though he isn't. But as far as I can tell, he is just bragging as usual. Gil needs to ask someone else if it looks like he is looking straight ahead when he really isn't to verify this "in the zone pose" hypothesis of his because the mediating screen is, as always, straight ahead. Surely this a reasonable burden of proof. Though Gil's "in the zone" hypothesis remains untested and unproven, it has come to define the entirety of his intra-action with himself. In fact, during his second three hour session while "in the zone" Gil realized that he could only see himself clearly in his television when he squinted and that when he squinted to see himself clearly he could only see himself squinting.

I think he's trying to make a point about clarity on some level.
i think he needs a new prescription.