The "spotter" from White City Investigations showed up at dawn, packing a small observatory's worth of telescopic gear.
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"White City Investigations"
The detective agency named after the Fair but also named to invoke the idea of the imperialist mentality of the 18th century. It's the whites who control the norm and thus must investigate everybody who isn't acting like white people think they should be acting (in other words: non-white people).
"a small observatory's worth of telescopic gear"
This is it! This is Pynchon saying, "We're about to really begin examining late 19th century America and, by extension, the world! Let's really get into the weeds by focusing this telescope on them weeds over there where some ants are unionizing and some other ants are busting the pickets and some other ants are blowing up anthills and some other ants are busy manipulating the entire system. Oh yeah. Those are some good weeds!"
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