GR translation: a sacrament of hands in every last turn each hand must produce

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/20/2012 7:30 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
> It's about the invisible hands of the preterite made visible by a
> theory of moral sentiments turned ironic. Although I suspect that
> Thomas is  alluded to here as well. It is about, as are so many of the
> arcane passages in P's books, the souls in the stones--the workers who
> put their lives into our world.


Or maybe the hands (again) are the hands guiding Slothrop's destiny.  
He's not living in a normal sort of to-be-determined world, but rather 
in an already-determined one.  It's all plotted out in advance.  It's up 
to the Hands to guide Slothrop's destiny through to the right conclusion.

P
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> P211.10-22   Fine for back there. But not in here, tapping on her bare
>> shoulder, peering in at her European darkness, bewildered with it,
>> himself with his straight hair barely combable and shaven face without
>> a wrinkle such a chaste intrusion in the Himmler-Spielsaal all crowded
>> with German-Baroque perplexities of shape (a sacrament of hands in
>> every last turn each hand must produce, because of what
>> the hand was, had to become, to make it all come out exactly this way
>> . . . all the cold, the trauma, the departing flesh that has ever
>> touched it. . . .) In the twisted gilt playing-room his secret motions
>> clarify for him, some. The odds They played here belonged to the past,
>> the past only. Their odds were never probabilities, but frequencies
>> already observed. It’s the past that makes demands here. It whispers,
>> and reaches after, and, sneering disagreeably, gooses its victims.
>>
>> What exactly is the part in the parentheses about?