Liberty and Justice [WAS Re: VLVL Round wire rims...]

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In a message dated 2/14/04 8:47:22 PM, vmaeder at cycn-phx.com writes:

<< Actually, these glasses would not appear to be like ordinary glasses.  
First

they would be gray in color, the lightness of gray or darkness depends on

the type of ND filters used.  Since she is using level 1 filters, they are

apt to be a lighter gray.  In any event, they would obviously appear to be

handmade, eccentric, and meaningful.

V. >>

One way of squeezing some of the nuances intended by Pynchon
out of the text in this section (admittedly not my preference- but
it seems plausibly there) is to consider Frenesi, weighing the no-
win options being laid out for her by the prosecutor, as a figure
for not-so-blind Justice- blindfold replaced by ND-1's. That reading
would be paired to Frenesi as Liberty, holding a floodlight instead 
of a torch, at Weed's death scene and reduced to a darkly reflected 
shadow in the eye of his murderer.

respectfully