GR translation: sunfishing in the clouds

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And sunfish particularly resemble anti-aircraft balloons:

http://gothicatheist.blogspot.com/2011/12/mola-mola-ocean-sunfish.html

http://www.battleofbritainbeacon.org/history/other-commands.cfm

Laura




-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 8, 2012 8:46 AM
>To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>Cc: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: GR translation: sunfishing in the clouds
>
>Wind would make a tethered baloon dart back and forth, as if swimming.
> And the Sunfish is a roundish strange-looking fish that the baloon
>might resemble.
>
>http://oceansunfish.org/
>
>On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> P130.38-131.4   Tonight’s scratch choir was all male, epauletted
>> shoulders visible under the wide necks of the white robes, and many
>> faces nearly as white with the exhaustion of soaked and muddy fields,
>> midwatches, cables strummed by the nervous balloons sunfishing in the
>> clouds, tents whose lights inside shone nuclear at twilight, soullike,
>> through the crosshatched walls, turning canvas to
>> fine gauze, while the wind drummed there.
>>
>> What is "sunfishing"?  Fishing for the sun?  Or acting like sunfish?