The Hal-Stice match begins — "The basic ten-level R.A.S.U. from the…"
The basic ten-level R.A.S.U. from the Universal Bleacher Co. sat right behind the court. […] For the spectators not perched on the transom overhead, the players looked waffle-cut by the chain-link fencing. The green windscreens that wrecked spectation were used only in the spring in the weeks right after the Lung’s disassembly.
Context
Spectation as engineered infrastructure: the bleacher is a branded Spectation Unit (the ref on "R.A.S.U." is n.265, which spells out Reinforced Aluminum Spectation Unit), windscreens are judged by whether they "wrecked spectation," and even the fence registers as an optical layer, waffle-cutting the players for everyone not perched overhead. The court is built to be seen through, from, and despite its own hardware.