GR translation: her marginally human touch

[Mark Kohut]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament
 
'the sound of trauma'....beautiful.

From: Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:20 PM
Subject: RE: GR translation: her marginally human touch


So is "her" the same as "his Lament", which he embraces?  If not, what is "his Lament" then?

What about Janos's interpretation?


> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:26:07 -0500
> Subject: Re: GR translation: her marginally human touch
> From: fqmorris at gmail.com
> To: mikezjing at hotmail.com
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> You don't have to go to the Elegies to find "her." It's right there
> in the text just a bit further down:
> 
> "...the newly-dead youth, embracing his Lament, his last link, leaving
> now even her marginally human touch forever, climbing all alone, up
> and up into the mountains of primal Pain, [...]....It's he, Blicero,
> who climbs the mountain [...] ...alone. No matter what flesh was
> there to appease the Witch, cannibal, and sorcerer, flourishing
> implements of pain -- alone, alone. He doesn't even know the Witch,
> can't understand the hunger that defines him/her, is only, in times of
> weakness, bewildered that it should coexist in the same body as
> himself."
> 
> "Her" is the Witch (who might also be a him), and he/she coexist in
> Blicero's body. Death removes his/her "marginally human touch
> forever."
> 
> I think this a good example (Paul?) of how one CAN parse GR.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > P99.40-41  ... the newly-dead youth, embracing his Lament, his last link, leaving now even her marginally human touch forever, ...
> >
> > Who is "she"?  Why is her touch "marginally human"?
> >
> > Does "she" refer to "his Lament"?  If so, is it an actual person, or, most likely, something else?
> >
> > Not sure if the answer is in the Tenth Elegy.  Haven't had time to study it.
> >
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