Parse

[David Morris]

Thank, Mitch, for supporting my longstanding posit that parsing GR is a
worthy endeavor.  Other old timers have disagreed.

On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Mitch Nisonoffm wrote:

> It makes more sense to parse this long sentence this way:
>
> ... certain
> trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead ...  [and] of*maturing* *rust*, developing through those emptying days brilliant and
> deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to
> try to bring events to Absolute Zero . . .
>
>
>
>  What is this "coral-like and mysteriously vital growth"?
>
> What is "developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep"?
> Is it the *rust*?  Why are the days "emptying", and yet "brilliant and
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 7, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'tyronemullet at hotmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that in "to seal its passage," "its" refers to the
> carriage. I would read "developing " to refer to the smells, including the
> distinctive smell of rust. "Blue shadows" - hmmm, maybe simply poetic
> license?
>
> Steve Maas
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: jonfpost at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'jonfpost at gmail.com');>
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:53:38 -0500
> Subject: GR p.4 "with blue shadows to seal its passage"
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'pynchon-l at waste.org');>
>
> I'm attempting a very close rereading of GR and have already come upon a
> puzzling knot that has stumped me: in the long sentence at the top of p. 4,
> I'm not sure how to interpret "...maturing rust, developing through those
> emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to
> seal its passage, to try to bring events to Absolute Zero ..."
>
> --What is "developing"? the various smells or the rust?
> --What does the "its" in "it's passage" refer to? the dawn? the
> development of the rust?
> --And so, what are the "blue shadows"?
>
> -J
>
>
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