GR translation: the plaid, hunched-up leaky handful inside

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen.  The use of the word "leaky" is interesting.  Anyone else
has something to add?


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:27 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

> A great passage again, a great paragraph. The "plaid, hunched-up leaky
> handful inside" might be plaid-clad bowed customers at the lunchwagon
> counter between them, and the pit, could it be something else than the
> great pit with the holding capacity for all the lindy-hopping millions
> of WWII?
>
> 2013/10/23 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> > Also, what is "the pit" in "watched you lindy-hop into the pit by
> millions"?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> V471.29-472.3     Lost, again and again, past poor dambusted and drowned
> >> Becket, up and down the rut-brown slopes, the hayrakes rusting in the
> >> afternoon, the sky purple-gray, dark as chewed gum, the mist starting to
> >> make white dashes in the air, aimed earthward a quarter, a half inch .
> . .
> >> she looked at him once, of course he still remembers, from down at the
> end
> >> of a lunchwagon counter, grill smoke working onto the windows patient as
> >> shoe grease against the rain for the plaid, hunched-up leaky handful
> inside,
> >> off the jukebox a quick twinkle in the bleat of a trombone, a reed
> section,
> >> planting swing notes precisely into the groove between silent midpoint
> and
> >> next beat, jumping it pah (hm) pah (hm) pah so exactly in the groove
> that
> >> you knew it was ahead but felt it was behind, both of you, at both ends
> of
> >> the counter, could feel it, feel your age delivered into a new kind of
> time
> >> that may have allowed you to miss the rest, the graceless expectations
> of
> >> old men who watched, in bifocal and mucus indifference, watched you
> >> lindy-hop into the pit by millions, as many millions as necessary. . . .
> >>
> >> What are "the plaid, hunched-up leaky handful inside" exactly?
> >
> >
>
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