GR translation: wearied blown sheets of tropic string cadences

[Keith Davis]

Maybe like Coltrane's "sheets of sound".

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:09 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "sheets" of music is figurative, not literal, meaning an extended
> period of music, not just a few notes.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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