VLVL Round wire rims with ND-I filters for lenses

[jbor]

> Howdy
> Alas I believe it is true that ND filters are *never* blue. They are
> specifically designed not to alter the color of the light reaching the
> film. You can get blue filters if you want them, but P has been very
> specific that these are ND filters, which are not blue. Any pretentious
> idiot can get blue sunglasses, but it takes a pretentious idiot of a
> special stripe indeed to sport glasses made out of ND filters...
> Mark

Thanks. Does the "1" mean that the filter transmits only 1% of incident
light? -- in which case Frenesi's not seeing very much at all. I think it's
still pertinent that the filter-lenses Frenesi is wearing (pretentiously, I
agree) as sunnies would alter the light, as described in the first
paragraph, and I think it's pretty clear that the narration engages
Frenesi's point of view in this scene:

       Brock only looked back, smug, glittering, what she'd learned
    to call his upping-the-ante face. (239)

I don't think there's any textual support for the idea that DL and/or
Prairie are narrating here; it's quite explicit later on that the only input
has been from the film footage:

    Prairie, reentering nonmovie space, felt like the basketball after
    a Lakers game ... (261)

And the contention that Frenesi symbolises "Justice" and/or "Liberty" is
even more at odds with the text. Prairie is very clear-sighted about
Frenesi's guilt:

    Her mom, in front of her own eyes, had stood with a 1,000 watt
    Mickey-Mole spot on the dead body of a man who had loved her, and
    the man who'd just killed him, and the gun she'd brought him to
    do it with [...] this hard frightening light, this white
    outpouring, had shown the girl most accurately, least mercifully,
    her mother's real face. (261-2)

I think the more pertinent symbolism is contained in DL's vision of Frenesi:

    She waited, guttering with a small meek defiance, standing at the
    window and trembling, moonlight from a high angle pouring over her
    naked back, casting on it shadows of her shoulder blades, like
    healed stumps of wings ritually amputated once long ago, for some
    transgression of the Angel's Code. (261)

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>> Is it true that ND-1 filters are *never* blue, or other colours? I
>> think
>> it's quite possible that there's a connection between the "vaporous
>> and
>> sub-tropical light falling through high windows, un-Californian
>> light" as
>> well as the fact that "the prevailing color was blue" (not just the
>> walls,
>> obviously). I think we're seeing this rendezvous through Frenesi's
>> eyes.