GR translation: have been faces of children out the train windows

[Dave Monroe]

... also, in re: "faces of children out the train windows," do recall ...

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/pound3.html

... echoed by Pynchon all too often (+ in particular circumstances;
yet another paper I'll never get to write,so, if anyone does, please @
least acknowledge me for posterity's/posteriority's sake), e.g., ...

"A leafless tree arches in the light of a single Lanthorn set above a
taut gathering of card-players,
their secret breathing visible for all to try to read, and Wigs, white
as the snow on the Roofslates, nodding in and out of the shadows."
(M&D, Ch. 3, p. 20)

https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59735

...goddamit, I bet Siegel demanding his mat'l be deposted screwed up
my links to previous posts therein, but ...

"White faces, like diseased blooms, bobbed along in the dark" (V., Ch.
9, Sec. i, p. 244)

https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54053

"The men inside the auction room wore black mohair and had pale, cruel
faces." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 183)

https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59200

... off the top of my head ...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> V626.3-15   . . . picking up rusted beer cans, rubbers yellow with preterite
> seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite tears,
> newspapers, broken glass, pieces of automobile, days when in superstition
> and fright he could make it all fit, seeing clearly in each an entry in a
> record, a history: his own, his winter’s, his country’s . . . instructing
> him, dunce and drifter, in ways deeper than he can explain, have been faces
> of children out the train windows, two bars of dance music somewhere, in
> some other street at night, needles and branches of a pine tree shaken clear
> and luminous against night clouds, one circuit diagram out of hundreds in a
> smudged yellowing sheaf, laughter out of a cornfield in the early morning as
> he was walking to school, the idling of a motorcycle at one dusk-heavy hour
> of the summer . . .
>
> How does "have been" fit into the overall structure of the sentence?
>
> I understand that it must be inverted.  is it something like this:
>
> faces of children out the train windows etc. have been instructing him in
> ways deeper than he can explain
>
> or something else entirely?
>
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