GR translation: the long rain in silicon and freezing descent

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/9/2011 11:24 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> Janos sez:
> Also silicon in the form of the oxide (sand) can be used to make 
> glass, hence, possibly,  glassy frozen rain drops.
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> 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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Oops I meant Bland.

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>> Think of glass and plastic associations in Pynchon's world of tropes.....
>> And silicon is in computer chips and we might recall the sands the 
>> submarine cuts through screamingly in Against the Day....
>> 2011/7/9 Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com <mailto: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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