GR translation: names of wheelhorses that will pay him off enough for a certain getaway

[Mark Kohut]

Fantasizing 'paraphrases of himself'.....it is the names [of
wheelhorses] that will pay him off....if he bets on those wheel
horses,
his surreal associations tell him, he will have enough to get out of
there...to not have to 'work' anymore is my reading.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did look up the word.  But who/what does it refer to here?  Why would they
> want to pay off Slothrop?  What are they trying to get away from?
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wheel+horses
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, August 29, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> V625.37-626.3   Crosses, swastikas, Zone-mandalas, how can they not speak
>>> to Slothrop? He’s sat in Säure Bummer’s kitchen, the air streaming with kif
>>> moirés, reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf
>>> paraphrases of himself . . . news flashes, names of wheelhorses that will
>>> pay him off enough for a certain getaway . . . . He used to pick and shovel
>>> at the spring roads of Berkshire, April afternoons he’s lost, “Chapter 81
>>> work,” they called it, following the scraper that clears the winter’s
>>> crystal attack-from-within, its white necropolizing . . .
>>>
>>> Who are these "wheelhorses" exactly?  And whose "getaway" is it?  I
>>> assume it's the wheelhorses'.  And I assume "certain" means "sure".
>
>
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