GR translation: Procalowski-down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 18.12.2015 11:04, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Perhaps that " so clearly" is there to indicate awareness that the 
> deus-ex-machina IS kinda clumsy, arbitrary, so much so that it led him 
> to think the disposing of Blicero was only conditional then Pynchon 
> twists the metal ( of a machine, of machina) into flesh.
> Another genius way of telling us: This is real. He was a body.
>

I think that this reading makes sense.



> On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Deus ex machina.. Greek or Latin theater, a god is introduced "from 
>> the sky" (a hoist and/or ropes), usually at a climactic point in the 
>> drama
>>
>> Has come to connote arbitrary, clumsy storytelling, although I don't 
>> get that here
>>
>> On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Mike Jing 
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     V672.7-16   He lost Blicero, but it wasn’t quite as real. After
>>     the last firing, the unremembered night-hours to Hamburg, the hop
>>     from Hamburg to Bydgoszcz in a purloined P-51 Mustang was so
>>     clearly Procalowskidown-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine, that Thanatz
>>     came to imagine he had disposed of Blicero too only in that same
>>     very conditional, metallic way. And sure enough, the metal has
>>     given way to flesh, and sweat, and long chattering night
>>     encounters, Blicero cross-legged stammering down at his crotch I
>>     cuh-cuh-cuh-cuh—”Can’t,” Blicero? “Couldn’t”? “Care”? “Cry”?
>>     Blicero that night was offering all his weapons, laying down all
>>     maps of his revetments and labyrinths.
>>
>>     What is "Procalowski-down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine"?
>>

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