GR translation: even this far out of it

[David Morris]

I agree, but what is Earthiness?  Fecundity and Mortality,
flesh,blood,death, as opposed to transcendence, immortality. But even out
there it is possible to flow with the earth and water, become a medium
channeling spirits of the long dead.

David Morris

On Thursday, August 27, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it is Earthliness he may be " so far out from". Notice all the
> "rushing water" being whacked out of that harmonica.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 27, 2015, at 7:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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