GR translation: even this far out of it

[Keith Davis]

In the context, I think he means the particular tune that fits with this particular moment in time, each moment being unique, and having it's own taste or feel or blues tune to accompany it.


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> On Aug 27, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Also, what is "the single blues"?
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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> 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> 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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