GR translations: except for William the very first

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/14/2011 5:07 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>> For what it's worth and aside from trying to decipher Mike's paragraph,  the
>> Heresy is of much greater import in the total scheme of the book than the
>> return. I mean, in setting William apart from the others
>>
>>
> If we say William's philosophy is the exception among his generations,
> this leads to a perplexity that I've wondered about before
> :
> if what we're talking about is the first William's *philosophy* being
> different from that of his descendants,
> (like in Young Frankenstein where the Gene Wilder character sez, "My
> grandfather's work was doo-doo!")
> -- then what is their philosophy supposed to be?
>
> I don't think it's different from his.

I was thinking of the meditation much  latter about if William' ideas 
had prevailed there might be less persecution in the name of Jesus and 
more kindness in the name of Judas.

His ideas about the value of the preterite.

See p. 555

Also the part about Ursala the lemming midway through.

Need a lot of passed over lemming  to save one lemming even though 
Ursala didn't get saved I guess.

P


>
> > From the first bit, I picture 9 or 10 generations "seeing the Hand"
> and then eventually  "going under the Berkshire ground to become part
> of it"
>
> - although they're not as vocal about it, I picture them pretty much
> cleaving to his philosophy....
> so in other words, the avalanche or slide of his family which began
> with William's heresy continues in Slothrop, the Hand in the Sky
> speaks to him as it did to them, and each generation articulates it
> less adeptly, as they individually and as a group both degenerate in
> social status, and physically decompose under the Berkshire ground
> (except William the very first, whose body rots under English earth)
>
> including Tyrone Slothrop, looking back at them and feeling that
> avalanche in his blood...
>