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

[David Morris]

Right. Tnanx.

On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, wrote:

> This should provide a big leg up to our earnest translator ...
>
> Well said and also, what the text is alluding to, far and away its means
> of production, self-containment, exposition.  An exfoliation from the
> embedded, the indebted, proletextian trauma of self-exploitation, by way of
> a sublingual tropism that is or at least was, shall be again, inter-solar,
> travel, a toke of the ol' mandrake as the Mardukian eclipse proceeds.  The
> grasping hands, as David Gahan once put it, grasp all they can.  A clear
> reference to the gold and emerald omphalos that reveals the innereardrums
> of the symphony at baalbek, paranthesized here in a late-mid 40s synthesis
> called PIMPF, the oomphas of the chocolate dwarfs of the middle century
> military-industrial complexion phoning home if you will, troubling teens
> with dark handsignals.
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: GR translation: a sacrament of hands in every last turn each
> hand must produce
>
>  Well said and also, what the text is alluding to, far and away its means
> of production, self-containment, exposition.  An exfoliation from the
> embedded, the indebted, proletextian trauma of self-exploitation, by way of
> a sublingual tropism that is or at least was, shall be again, inter-solar,
> travel, a toke of the ol' mandrake as the Mardukian eclipse proceeds.  The
> grasping hands, as David Gahan once put it, grasp all they can.  A clear
> reference to the gold and emerald omphalos that reveals the innereardrums
> of the symphony at baalbek, paranthesized here in a late-mid 40s synthesis
> called PIMPF, the oomphas of the chocolate dwarfs of the middle century
> military-industrial complexion phoning home if you will, troubling teens
> with dark handsignals.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:30 AM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'alicewellintown at gmail.com');>> 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.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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?
>>
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