even more fanciful - the serif-chopper

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

I'll probably kick myself for excess prolixity in the AM, but...

ok, the 2 reflections on the cover are sans-serif, and the bold origin
letters have serifs -- indicating maybe they are projected through some 
kind of serif-chopper

...now if the serifs represent the knurled brass intricacies of the 
Victorian Age, I was initially thinking of the harsh, aether-less conditions
of the 20th Century as chopping off the serifs with their cold, machine-like
efficiency - but what if the aether itself is the dangerous possibility, and
the convenience of its offered explanation leads to the reductive
assumptions that strip letters of serifs, lives of grace, children of sleep?

better not get started on what if Pynchon is really a Straussian?
I'd have to raise my opinion of Strauss for one thing (-;