Endnote 265: R.A.S.U. spelled out
Reinforced Aluminum Spectation Unit.
Context
The entire endnote: four words unpacking the abbreviation on the "basic ten-level R.A.S.U. from the Universal Bleacher Co." that sits behind Court 9 during the Hal-Stice match (125, pp. 653-654 region). The 125 entry built the observation — spectation as engineered infrastructure, the bleacher a branded Spectation Unit — and this note is its catalog-spec confirmation: "Spectation" is not the narrator's coinage there but the manufacturer's, watching sold as reinforced aluminum product. The theme's central abstraction (spectation, elsewhere lethal in a recliner) here has an industrial part-name. Cross-refs: 125; n242's transom filming-perch as the court's other purpose-built viewing furniture.