Synopsis of GR--corrections

Michael G. Koopman koopman at ctc.com
Thu Jan 26 08:31:04 CST 1995


Bonnie Sufus addresses night crawlings in cramped tummies with to much
schokolade entrained with verbose diligence, willingly:

> > "Saure" means "acid" in German, thus giving the character the translated 
> > name of Acid Bummer -- GET IT??
> 
> Sorry to evoke the lemming image, but it seems like the very principles 
> Pynchon critiques are those in play here.  Verstehe nicht dich?  Here, 
> I'll look it up for you in my guide to meaning.  

The minor jaunder into principalities practicum in your mouth, is well
appreciated but too many lines, read more S.Clemens.

> Again, no offense.  I love Weisenberger's text, Barger's FAQ's and any 
> other help offerred.  But sometimes the kind of thinking that 
> proliferates those tools obscures others.

This crow and burger bit is not so de-kons trucked in, by my book nada
but vaporous expansionism rhetoric.

> What do I mean?  Simply that "saure" in German is not, as it seems to
> me anyhow, the "acid" of LSD, but something more like acidity of the
> sour stomach.  And "bumme" as bummer (if TRP is consistent w/in the
> naming as far as the use of German goes) is not found.  The closest I
> get is "bummel" which, if conjugated to 1st person, might be "bumme"
> for "I dawdled."  The trans. I like best is "pub-crawl."  So what I
> could see might suggest a pub-crawling drunk with a sour stomach.  Of
> course, this is just one iteration of meaning.  ONe thing I'll check
> on in my German class today--I can't make out if "bummel" is a noun or
> not.  It may make a difference, or maybe not.

For the above I tip my cap, excellently not put plain.  Saure, not
like brotten, praise Sun-Il chantings evenings, is like trout
almons-diner, plunk, plunk, two coins in.  Such a rot gut odor does
proliferate acid stomaches and makes heads squirm.  Proximity of bumme
to "bumm" sounding canons is more likely 'awoken' American English
slangings.  Certainly your declension helps apply this directive in
the gen-X vector, inwards, headlong.  Apply bang I to vicier saure
cyclers seems like an acid bummer from my stance, with little quaking.

Keep your buying amore slanged,

Mike Koopman internet: koopman at ctc.com phone: +1-814-269-2637




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