Pynchon (esp AtD) & a sense of justice.

[Mark Kohut]

in 1971, a major work of political philosophy was published
and widely discussed--and still is.
It was John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice". 

That book ends like this (p587) :     
  "Thus to see our place in society from the perspective of this position
[the 'original position": all citizens REALLY equal in opportunity. Lots to understand to get here] 
is to see it sub specie aeternitatas: it is to regard the human situation not only from all social but from all temporal points of view. [!] The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, not the point
of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within 
the world. And having done so, they can, whatever their generation, bring together into one scheme all individual
perspectives and arrive together at regulative principles that can be affirmed by everyone as he lives by them, each from his own standpoint. PURITY OF HEART, IF ONE COULD ATTAIN IT, WOULD BE TO SEE CLEARLY AND TO ACT WITH GRACE AND SELF-COMMAND FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW."

[capitalization mine].

Uh, anyone reminded of any recent book's ending but for the not-perfectly-clear goggles?