Help, please

[David Payne]

That sentence is so screwy that I cannot determine the object of each phrase ... does this seem close to correct?
 
* "Cammed each night out of that safe furrow" -- i.e., the old man is cammed out (pushed out by his own energies which are redirected vertically) of that safe furrow (i.e., the straight & narrow path of life) each night?
 
* as opposed to (camming requires oppositive forces): "the bulk of this city's waking each sunrise again set virtuously to plowing" -- i.e., most of the people in the city wake up each morning to dutifully plow along the straight and narrow life ("the bulk" have sufficient mass to overcome the counter pressure of the old man, so he is cammed out of the safe furrow)
 
* and back to the old man: "what rich soils had he turned, what concentric planets uncovered?" -- i.e., "she" (Oedipa) is wondering what the old man turned up during his evening plowing, which was conducted along a different furrow than the safe furrow that the bulk of the city woke to do? (i.e., what poetic truths have been unearthed by this old man's shadowy, counter-culture living)
 
The old man is against the day, so to speak, but one against the bulk is beaten down?
 
> 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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