GR translation: except that the man was never really alive

[Bekah]

OR -  it could mean something more along the lines of  Jamf was never really "alive"  in an animated sense.  He may have walked and talked and breathed,  but he was never a really feeling and animated human being.   He was more like an unfeeling robot going through life doing his horrible experiments   - not really functioning as a whole and on-going human being.   

"The man was never really alive so how can he be really -  " (dead?).   

But if Slothrop has no memory of him,  then I'm not sure the above makes a lot of sense -  yours (David) might be better. 

Bekah


On Mar 9, 2013, at 9:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>