GR translation: except that the man was never really alive

[David Morris]

Yes.  He has no memory that he can recall of Jamf.

On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> P264.24-37  “That stuff. Forget it. It’s not even our line. You ever try
> to develop a polymer when there’s nothing but indole people around? With
> our giant parent to the north sending in ultimatums every day? Imipolex G
> is the company albatross, Yank. They have vice-presidents whose only job is
> to observe the ritual of going out every Sunday to spit on old Jamf’s
> grave. You haven’t spent much time with the indole crowd. They’re very
> elitist. They see themselves at the end of a long European dialectic,
> generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on broomsticks, community
> orgies, cantons lost up there in folds of mountain that haven’t known an
> unhallucinated day in the last 500 years—keepers of a tradition,
> aristocrats—”
> “Wait a minute. . . .”Jamf dead? “You say Jamf’s grave, now?” It ought to
> be making more of a difference to him, except that the man was never really
> alive so how can he be really—
>
> By "the man was never really alive", I assume Slothrop means he has never
> known Jamf in person, is that correct?
>
>
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