GR translation: the long rain in silicon and freezing descent

[Mark Kohut]

Janos sez: 
Also silicon in the form of the oxide (sand) can be used to make glass, hence, possibly,  glassy frozen rain drops.

But definitely yes we are made to think of those wimpy covalent (shared) bonds in the polymer that plastics expert Lyle Brand so despised.



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>Think of glass and plastic associations in Pynchon's world of tropes.....
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>And silicon is in computer chips and we might recall the sands the submarine cuts through screamingly in Against the Day....
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>2011/7/9 Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>
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>>P95.27-28  Outside, the long rain in silicon and freezing descent smacks, desolate, ...
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>>What is "silicon" referring to here?  Sand?
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