GR translation: winter and elastic light

[Paul Mackin]

Or maybe the scattering of wave lengths  (colors) caused by particulate 
matter in the air.  Smoke, dust, bodily effusions, etc.   Los Angeles on 
a smoggy day.  Some find the effect beautiful.

P
On 12/7/2011 10:04 AM, David Morris wrote:
> This and the other previous passage are part of one of Pynchon's most
> poetic writings ever, and as such they purposely evade distinct
> meaning.  No one can tell you "this means (whatever)" because the
> meaning is supposed to be "elastic."  These sections seem to be the
> delirious half-dream experiences of one of the shell-shock
> soldier/patients being transported to the White Visitation.
> Disorientation and helpless paranoia shade these experiences.
>
> That said, "elastic light" seems related to the first two sentences
> (and the ensuing gradual "revealings"):  "But it is already light. How
> long has it been light?"
>
> The emergence of the light is almost as if it is a living creature,
> slowly revealing the contents of the room.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Mike Jing<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> P5.4-14   But it is already light. How long has it been light? All
>> this while, light has come percolating in, along with the cold morning
>> air flowing now across his nipples: it has begun to reveal an
>> assortment of drunken wastrels, some in uniform and some not,
>> clutching empty or near-empty bottles, here draped over a chair, there
>> huddled into a cold fireplace, or sprawled on various divans,
>> un-Hoovered rugs and chaise longues down the different levels of the
>> enormous room, snoring and wheezing at many rhythms, in self-renewing
>> chorus, as London light, winter and elastic light, grows between the
>> faces of the mullioned windows, grows among the strata of last night’s
>> smoke still hung, fading, from the waxed beams of the ceiling.
>>
>> What does it mean that the light is "elastic"?