GR translation: more steeply than the waking will ever need

[Paul Mackin]

B\On 10/22/2012 11:53 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 10/22/2012 11:15 AM, David Morris wrote:
>> Oh.  I misread "waking" for "walking."
>>
>> The opposite of waking might be sleeping, AKA the Dead.  Ghosts do 
>> abound in GR.
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> Another idea might be that large ships in the area produce wakes 
> overflowing the banks,  requiring slanted esplanades for runoff.

I should be more explicit in trying to answer Mike's question.

By my calculation, "waking" here means the production of turbulence by 
boats or ships moving through the water.  Creating a wake. Making waves.

The -ing form  of this kind of wake may be ad hoc-- of Pynchon's 
invention-- but the ordinary noun form, used literally or figuratively 
in this sense, occurs in the book ten times.  By Kindle count.  PP. 181, 
190, 218, 225, 324, 343 389. 501, 529, 667. Pynchon's an old salt.

Slow no wakes.

P




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>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> Could that be "the waking" as opposed to "the dreaming"?
>>>
>>> Bekah
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>>> On Oct 21, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Mike Jing 
>>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> P227.38-228.7  They are standing among black curly skeletons of iron
>>>> benches, on the empty curve of this esplanade, banked much more
>>>> steeply than the waking will ever need: vertiginous, trying to spill
>>>> them into the sea and be rid of this. The day has grown colder.
>>>> Neither of them can stay balanced for long, every few seconds one or
>>>> the other must find a new footing. He reaches and turns up the collar
>>>> of her coat, holds her cheeks then in his palms . . . is he trying to
>>>> bring back the color of flesh? He looks down, trying to see into her
>>>> eyes, and is puzzled to find tears coming up to fill each one, soaking
>>>> in among her lashes, mascara bleeding out in fine black swirls . . .
>>>> translucent stones, trembling in their sockets. . . .
>>>>
>>>> What does "the waking" refer to here?
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