Each great capital

[Ya Sam]

Most probably it was discussed before, during one of the GR group reads but 
I will ask this question anyway. The problem I'm having is the disturbing 
sentence on the very last page of GR: 'It may have been a human figure, 
dreaming of an early evening in each great capital luminous enough to tell 
him he will never die, coming outside to wish on the first star'. My first 
reading was that each great capital is the respective capital cities of the 
conflicting superpowers, Washington and Moscow, awaiting the nuclear blast. 
But when the same passage was being read in the Pynchon documentary, they 
were showing luminous capitals of a cinema sign. Now, when I come to think 
of it, Pynchon might have used the polysemy of the word 'capital' on purpose 
to create this ambiguity. What do you think?

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