GR translation: wallpaper awhisper with peacocks

[Mark Kohut]

I guess I made the case for wallpaper with patterns that were very faint peacocks
 fans
...down deep lawns
to old Georgian houses...[pictured] to safe groves of holm oak....



----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>; Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: wallpaper awhisper with peacocks

"Awhisper" here (imho) refers to the implied sound of the feathers of
the peacocks' tails as they spread their fans.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is another meaning of 'whisper', 'awhisper' wherein it is soundless:
> [usually in singular]a slight trace; a hint:he didn’t show even a whisper of interest
>
> From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> To: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:59 AM
> Subject: GR translation: wallpaper awhisper with peacocks
>
> P24.39-P25.7  As inputs to ACHTUNG got faster, often he‘d show up in
> time to help the search crews—following restless-muscled RAF dogs into
> the plaster smell, the gas leaking, the leaning long splinters and
> sagging mesh, the prone and noseless caryatids, rust already at nails
> and naked threadsurfaces, the powdery wipe of Nothing’s hand across
> wallpaper awhisper with peacocks spreading their fans down deep lawns
> to Georgian houses long ago, to safe groves of holm oak . . . among
> the calls for silence following to where some exposed hand or
> brightness of skin waited them, survivor or casualty.
>
> Is the wallpaper whispering, or is it something else?