GR translation: sweat drops in the air

[alice wellintown]

The Norden was on the EG and was used to drop the bomb on Japan. It
had no humidity shield and was known for its accuracy and its
delicacy; Weisenburger provides a note worth looking at. The angel?
Now, who wrote that book on GR and Rilke? No, not Eddins....but his
book is a big help here....
Hohmann, Charles.  Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: A Study of its
Conceptual Structure and of Rilke's Influence.  New York:  Peter Lang,
1986.

This book is invaluable to these episodes.



On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 4:46 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Again, I completely misread the sentence.  So it is the Norden device
>>> that is "bewildered", is that correct?  The published translation
>>> seems to have got that part right.
>>>
>>>
>> so to speak...
>> anthropomorphizing the bombsight?
>> etymology of bewilder is "thoroughly led astray"
>> so if the bombsight's purpose is to sight where to drop the bombs, and
>> it isn't pointing toward the ground...
>>
>> which sort of relates to how the pattern recognition of Basher and his
>> wingman changes from perceiving a target to perceiving an angel
>>
>> but such leading astray from homicidal purposes is not necessarily a
>> bad thing...
>>
>>
>> then too remember the beginning of Vineland, where he talks about how
>> maybe an angel is composed of the lives and deaths of human beings (1s
>> and 0s)
>>
> Up until the angel sighting, the plane was probably under at least partial
> automatic control, with the Norden linked into the process.  Then all of a
> sudden that control gets wrested away, this being very puzzling to the
> Norden.
>
> P
>