GR translations: except for William the very first

[Alex Colter]

I wish I could recall the exact passage but I am pretty sure this is
referencing a portion of  *On The Road* by Mr Kerouac.
If that were the case then the exception could be due to the Desire to move
Westward...?

Terribly Abstract'd at the moment...



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>wrote:

> P27.20-28   Constant saw, and not only with his heart, that stone hand
> pointing out of the secular clouds, pointing directly at him, its
> edges traced in unbearable light, above the whispering of his river
> and slopes of his long blue Berkshires, as would his son Variable
> Slothrop, indeed all of the Slothrop blood one way or another, the
> nine or ten generations tumbling back, branching inward: every one,
> except for William the very first, lying under fallen leaves, mint and
> purple loosestrife, chilly elm and willow shadows over the swamp-edge
> graveyard in a long gradient of rot, leaching, assimilation with the
> earth, . . .
>
> Does it mean that everyone in the Slothrop family saw the hand in the
> cloud (when they died, I assume), except for William Slothrop the very
> first?  Why the exception?
>
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