GR translation: a poising, an uneasiness

[Mark Kohut]

the opposite of Eliot's still point.......

 



----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: a poising, an uneasiness

On 12/10/2011 1:26 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> Still going back and forth.
>
> P3.10-18  Inside the carriage, which is built on several levels, he
> sits in velveteen darkness, with nothing to smoke, feeling metal
> nearer and farther rub and connect, steam escaping in puffs, a
> vibration in the carriage’s frame, a poising, an uneasiness, all the
> others pressed in around, feeble ones, second sheep, all out of luck
> and time: drunks, old veterans still in shock from ordnance 20
> years obsolete, hustlers in city clothes, derelicts, exhausted women
> with more children than it seems could belong to anyone, stacked about
> among the rest of the things to be carried out to salvation.
>
> What is the meaning of "a poising" here?
>
I think the connotation would be one of standing in wait of what was to 
happen.