GR translations: except for William the very first

[Michael Bailey]

it's a very involved sentence.  certainly that spiritual meaning is driven at.

the primary action, seeing the Hand in the sky, is distributed over
all the clauses, and certainly this points (like the Hand) to the
meanings you're explicating.

I'm also pointing to William the very first's eventual return to
England as being a physical fact which is also intended to be referred
to.

Just as young Tyrone has now returned to England, at least temporarily
escaping that Doom that apparently has met all the American
Slothrop's, or perhaps (shudder) bringing it with him...

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:01 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> His RETURN, no deposit no return, while not quite a Reversible (more
> akin to Teilhard de Chardin's No Return, his physical journey or
> return to his native lands, is a figurative progress; What
> distinguishes William is not his physical movements so much as his
> spiritial one. The questions he raises, and, more importantly, the
> fact that he, a powerful and important man, but still a relatively
> "unlettered" man, when he is juxtaposed with those who find him guilty
> of (we might call it a sin or we might call it treason) writing a book
> that looks too deeply and darkly into the mysteries of the Father &
> Son, and specifically the the Passion and how Christ's sufferings, for
> TULIPs, is to be read by the congregation, are a Return to Earth.
> Beautiful stuff from young Tom.
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow, fascinating stuff.  Thanks, Michael.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> the first William Slothrop moved back to England and is buried there.
>>>
>>> viz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pynchon