GR translation: the hollow of an upended trunk

[Mark Kohut]

Look for some German folktale resonance/allusion maybe---with world enough and time....I know nuthin' 'bout 
German folktales 'cepting Hansel & Gretel (f that counts)

From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> 
Cc: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: the hollow of an upended trunk



Also this: "The reefer keeps coming around: darts and stabs through this root shelter." And earlier: "long roots fringing the scene like a leprechaun outpost."  They seem to be deep in the roots somehow.  So this must the a hollow right at the bottom of the tree then.




On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

Well, later on there was this:
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>"The stump towers above and cups them all, a giant nerve cell, dendrites extended into the city, the night."
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>Then it must be really huge.  And the hollow is near the roots:
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>"Säure, who is never able entirely to lay off business, rolls, flows to his feet, clutching on to a root till his head decides where it is going to come to rest."
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>So it looks like they are sitting under some of these roots.  Again, it must be a very big tree.
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>On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>Almost -  the tree is upended - up out of the ground with the roots dangling around -  but the hollow is in the tree trunk.   This hollow in the tree is where he finds Emil and the two girls with the star.  It must be a big hollow - like it was a big tree which fell down an has a big chunked out part in its side.    Somewhat bigger than this:
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>>http://feridasbackyard.blogspot.com/2010/10/sometimes-it-takes-tree.html
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>>So Emil and the girls were just sitting in a hollow  in the trunk like it was a bench or something - not all hidden down in a little hole like owls.
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>>This is the way I read it,  anyway -  hope you can see what is in my mind.  (heh)
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>>Bekah
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>>On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> OK, that makes sense.  So they are really sitting in a shallow hole in the ground left by the tree, with roots dangling above from the tree trunk lying on its side.
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>>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> It's out of the ground, for sure - whether it's on its side or not is a ? but I'd say probably - I mean,  how else?
>>> http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=3409766
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>>> Bekah
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>>> On Jun 30, 2013, at 9:29 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > Yes, but upended trunk is more likely on its side.
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>>> > On Sunday, June 30, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:
>>> > P371.12-19   Sure enough, in the hollow of an upended trunk, long roots fringing the scene like a leprechaun outpost, Slothrop finds one Emil (“Säure”) Bummer, once the Weimar Republic’s most notorious cat burglar and doper, flanked by two beautiful girls, handing around a cheerful little orange star. The depraved old man. Slothrop’s on top of them before they notice. Bummer smiles, reaches up an arm, offering the remainder of what they’ve been smoking to Slothrop, who receives it in long dirty fingernails. Oboy. He hunkers down.
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>>> > Does this actually refer to a tree trunk that's standing upside down and partially hollowed out?
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