...is a slave? At the end of Ch. 8, the girls follow M & D up to the observatory. Austra is the authority here, as far as the girls are concerned. It seems she could so easily slip away into the continent and personal freedom. Does she choose her servitude? Www.innergroovemusic.com Sent from Beyond the Zero- Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l