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

[David Morris]

Leaky as a worn out machine.

On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Mike Weaver wrote:

>  Leaky as in tearful - not literally crying but depressed and miserable
> maybe?
> Or is it a reference to the shoe grease keeping the wet out of their
> busted and leaky footwear?
> Or both and more...
>
>
> On 31/10/2013 04:19, Mike Jing wrote:
>
> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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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