Fwd: GR p.4 "with blue shadows to seal its passage"

[Jonathan Post]

I'm returned. I made a few posts on AtD a few years ago and have lurked.
Hope to post more frequently.

I've read the Jing post and the comments, all of which are helpful, but
nobody has nailed what exactly is bringing events to Absolute Zero or has
tackled the shadows. After reading the sentence probably 50 times since my
last post, here are some new thoughts:

"blue shadows" are the shadows cast by the rising sun (dawn) in the
previous clause, what they are "sealing" (authenticating) is the passage of
"those emptying days". Could the days (time) be bringing events to Absolute
Zero. That would make perfect sense, but would be grammatically off/awkward
(would be: emptying days brilliant and deep to bring events to Absolute
Zero).


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonathan, not sure if you are new, if you are - welcome!  if not,
> please pardon my obliviousness!
>
> Mike Jing, a fellow p-lister, is doing a translation into Chinese of
> GR, and periodically writes in with a question.
>
> He asked about this phrase awhile back and initiated the following thread:
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1112&msg=160884&keywords=maturing%20rust
>
> unfortunately, it does contain some of my own bloviating on the topic,
> but if you skip those contributions, some worthwhile ideas were
> offered, iirc
>
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