GR translation: wearied blown sheets of tropic string cadences

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 22:11:26 CST 2011


P171.18-24   . . .—here what’s this, an actual, slick and crimson,
hot, squeak-stockinged slavegirl “gam” yes right among these
winter-pale clinical halls, with the distant gramophone playing rumba
music, basses, woodblocks, wearied blown sheets of tropic string
cadences audible as everyone dances back there on the uncarpeted
floors, and the old Palladian shell, conch of a thousand rooms, gives,
resonates, shifting stresses along walls and joists . . .

what are these "wearied blown sheets"?  Is it sheet music in the wind,
or something else?



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