GR translation: even this far out of it

[David Morris]

I think the question to be asked is this: Where or what is the "it" to be
so far out from?  I think Mortality is that place or thing.

David Morris

On Thursday, August 27, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V622.14-26   Through the flowing water, the holes of the old Hohner
> Slothrop found are warped one by one, squares being bent like notes, a
> visual blues being played by the clear stream. There are harpmen and
> dulcimer players in all the rivers, wherever water moves. Like that Rilke
> prophesied,
>
>               And though Earthliness forget you,
>               To the stilled Earth say: I flow.
>               To the rushing water speak: I am.
>
>        It is still possible, even this far out of it, to find and make
> audible the spirits of lost harpmen. Whacking the water out of his
> harmonica, reeds singing against his leg, picking up the single blues at
> bar 1 of this morning’s segment, Slothrop, just suckin’ on his harp, is
> closer to being a spiritual medium than he’s been yet, and he doesn’t even
> know it.
>
> What exactly does "even this far out of it" mean here?
>
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