GR: the translation continues

[Mark Kohut]

And 'quake' is a verb, not a noun, I would add.....[They] quake.....




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From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 8:18:48 AM
Subject: Re: GR: the translation continues

On 5/16/2011 11:34 PM, Mike Jing wrote: 
P31.25-27  Brass throats and breasts warm to her blood, quake in the hollow of 
her hand.
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>What are the "brass throats and breasts"?  And why is there a "quake in the 
>hollow of her hand"?
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>Any help is appreciated. She's imagining the dart in her hand is the 
>still-beating breast of the live bird from which the feathers came.

The throat is part of the dart as well as of bird.

That's how it sounded to me.

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