GR translation: Just for the knife-edge

[Mike Jing]

Noted.  Thanks, Monte.


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> What Jochen said. Also a hint of other images in the book: sound shadows,
> the terminator line of sunrise or sunset sweeping along (1000+ mph at the
> equator), maybe a subliminal equation of  new directions ion life with both
> danger and “cutting loose.”
>
> ****
>
> That last sentence is a wonder, appealing to something almost every
> traveler has felt. Give it all your care.  ****
>
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Mike Jing
> *Sent:* Monday, March 04, 2013 4:35 PM
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> *Subject:* GR translation: Just for the knife-edge****
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> P256.30-257-5  It turns out to be an ancient four-story hotel with early
> drunks lying in the hallways, eyelids like tiny loaves brushed with a last
> glaze of setting sun, and summertime dust in stately evolutions through the
> taupe light, summertime ease to the streets outside, April summertime as
> the great vortex of redeployment from Europe to Asia hoots past leaving
> many souls each night to cling a bit longer to the tranquillities here,
> this close to the drain-hole of Marseilles, this next-to-last stop on the
> paper cyclone that sweeps them back from Germany, down the river-valleys,
> beginning to drag some from Antwerp and the northern ports too now as the
> vortex grows more sure, as preferential paths are set up. . . . Just for
> the knife-edge, here in the Rue Rossini, there comes to Slothrop the best
> feeling dusk in a foreign city can bring: just where the sky’s light
> balances the electric lamplight in the street, just before the first star,
> some promise of events without cause, surprises, a direction at right
> angles to every direction his life has been able to find up till now.****
>
> What is "Just for the knife-edge" trying to invoke here?****
>
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