Help, please
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Nov 11 15:38:41 CST 2008
20 responses to "Help, please."
Maybe we want to sneak in a group read of CoL49
before TRP's newest goes out next August?
On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:
> A cam is useful in turning circular motion into linear motion.
> Perhaps yo-yoing into hermeneutics.
>
> Natália Maranca wrote:
> I'm reading CofL49 and it was a very smooth read so far,
>> but now I'm stuck in this bit. I'm not a native speaker, so be
>> condescendent.
>> It is on p. 102 in my Harper Perennial edition. She is
>> hallucinating all over San Francisco and in the dawn she
>> meets this old man who asks her to drop a letter to his wife
>> under the freeway, in the W.A.S.T.E. box.
>> ' "Under the freeway." He waved her on the direction she'd
>> been going. "Always one. You'll see it." The eyes closed.
>> Cammed each night out of that safe furrow the bulk of this
>> city's waking each sunrise again set virtuously to plowing,
>> what rich soils had he turned, what concentric planets
>> uncovered?"
>> This is absolutely incomprehensible to me. I loose the line of
>> thought there and everything he says after doesn't seem to
>> make much sense. Can anyone please explain it to me?
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