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Doctor Eckelburg
'They look out of no face' + 'pass over a non-existent nose'
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They look out of no face:
'Pass over a non-existent nose'
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Absence
of other
facial features


Implies a
non-human
and therefore,
god-like
essence to this symbol
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Eyes
require spectacles

Implies the eye doctor's own sight is
myopic
as well as
flawed
and, of course, un-godlike
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The quasi-defined presence of the doctor's eyes
Is
undermined
by a very human impairment
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The gradual withering of the billboard paint
His eyes are dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain
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God-like
as the eyes may seem in their imposing scale, they're too deficient and lacklustre to be the eyes of a real,
omniscient
god
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